An increasingly broad array of stakeholders agree that primary care is in crisis, at great detriment to individual and population health and to the cost-effectiveness of health care. Less clear are the highest-priority steps that should be taken to address the crisis so that high-quality primary care built on a foundation of longitudinal, trusting clinician-patient-family relationships will be readily available to all. Delineating those high-priority steps was the focus of the Revitalizing Primary Care Summit (Rev PC), convened by the UC Davis School of Medicine in October 2024.
Sponsored by the California Health Care Foundation, this webinar covered the seven major recommendations (PDF) from Rev PC. A diverse panel of experts discussed how they are working to improve primary care in the sectors they represent (e.g., state agencies, payers, health plans). Topics include the Office of Health Care Affordability’s new primary care spending targets, how to raise the primary care spend while placing curbs on overall cost growth, and achieving an adequate primary care workforce.
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Panelists included:
Palav Babaria, MD
Chief Quality and Medical Officer and Deputy Director of Quality and Population Health Management, California Department of Health Care Services
Margareta Brandt, MPH
Assistant Deputy Director, Health System Performance, Office of Health Care Affordability at the California Department of Health Care Access and Information
Alice Hm Chen, MD, MPH
Executive Vice President and Chief Health Officer for Centene Corporation
Carlina Hansen, MHA
Senior Program Officer, Improving Access, California Health Care Foundation
Anthony Jerant, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UC Davis
Richard Kravitz, MD, MSPH
Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine, UC Davis, and cochair of the 2024 UC Davis Revitalizing Primary Care Summit
Raymond Tsai, MD, MS
Vice President of Advanced Primary Care for Purchaser Business Group on Health
