On July 15, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the National Alliance of Health Care Purchaser Coalitions (National Alliance), along with other partners, announced a new collaboration.
These organizations will be seeking to change how primary care is paid for and delivered to ensure comprehensive, continuous, and coordinated advanced primary care for the more than 150 million Americans with employer-sponsored insurance (ESI). This effort, focused on the ESI market, will complement our delivery system and payment reform efforts with public payers such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Given the prominence of employer-sponsored insurance and the growing number of businesses that are becoming self-insured, the AAFP’s direct engagement with the purchaser coalition provides the Academy greater opportunities to transform primary care delivery and payment and, equally important, secure alignment across payers.