On December 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the recipients of 11 Model Test awards under the second round of the State Innovation Models (SIM) initiative. New York State will receive approximately $99.9 million in financial and technical support over a four-year period to test and evaluate its proposed multi-payer health system transformation model, known as the Advanced Primary Care (APC) model. This model will include behavioral and population health, and be complemented by a strong workforce and engaged consumers, with supportive payment and common metrics. As part of its State Health Innovation Plan, New York will: 1) institute a state-wide program of regionally-based primary care practice transformation to help practices across New York adopt and use the APC model; 2) expand the use of value-based payments so that 80% of New Yorkers are receiving value-based care by 2020; 3) support performance improvement and capacity expansion in primary care by expanding the state’s primary care workforce through innovations in professional education and training; 4) integrate APC with population health through Public Health Consultants funded to work with regional Population Health Improvement Program contractors; 5) develop a common scorecard, shared quality metrics and enhanced analytics to assure that delivery system and payment models support three-part aim objectives; and 6) provide state-funded health information technology, including greatly enhanced capacities to exchange clinical data and an all-payer database.
