Over 160 participants gathered Wednesday evening at the Primary Care Innovation Circle Third Annual Summit to take on the glaring underfunding of primary care. The event, titled Growing the Primary Care Share of Health Care Spending, was organized by the Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC) and held at the New York Academy of Sciences in …
Despite being essential to high quality health care, healthier communities, and reducing healthcare costs, primary care represents only a tiny slice of the over $3 trillion the United States spends each year on healthcare. Moderated by PCDC CEO Louise Cohen and featuring Christopher Koller, CEO of the Millbank Memorial Fund and Lindsay C. Farrell, President …
Paul Francis, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Deputy Secretary for Health and Human Services, spoke at PCDC’s Leadership Advisory Council December breakfast about the State’s plans to expand and strengthen primary care. Describing primary care as the “hub of the wheel” for health system transformation, Mr. Francis noted that several hundred million dollars were being …