Prospective payment for primary care : lessons for future models Taylor, Erin, author. Bailit, Michael, author. Sayles, Jennifer, author. Reimbursement Mechanisms -- trends Primary Health Care -- economics Prospective Payment System Realizing a vision for advanced primary care in the United States will require adopting new payment strategies. The predominant payment scheme under which primary care practices operate--and their primary source of revenue--is fee-for-service payment. However, fee-for-service is not structured to support or sustain a comprehensive primary care system. Prospective payment for primary care is an alternative payment model that can facilitate care delivery transformations to better manage population health. It offers practices a predictable source of revenue, independent of the units of traditionally billable services, and the flexibility to manage care within a budget to optimize outcomes for a population of patients. Earlier primary care prospective payment models, such as those commonly employed in the 1990s, offer lessons and insights for designing a prospective payment for primary care that will facilitate the delivery of comprehensive, coordinated, and patient-centered primary care. New York, NY : Milbank Memorial Fund, September 2020 Milbank Memorial Fund, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (21 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-9918349988806676-pdf 9918349988806676 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918349988806676 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0