There is a growing consensus that the US primary care system must be redesigned in fundamental ways to improve health and the patient experience while lowering costs (Knox et al., 2011). The current system’s skyrocketing costs are unsustainable and present a serious threat to our national fiscal integrity, as well as to individual’s and small businesses’ abilities to obtain affordable, quality health care. The current fee-for-service payment model provides financial incentives to deliver more—and more costly—services and undermines health care providers’ efforts to change practice patterns (Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution and the Dartmouth Institute, 2010; Steinbrook, 2009).
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