In early August, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Standing Committee on Primary Care (Standing Committee), co-chaired by Dr. Lauren Hughes, associate professor of family medicine and state policy director of the Farley Health Policy Center, published a response to the Pay PCPs Act of 2024 Request for Information. The original RFI, released by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Bill Cassidy, MD, of Louisiana, aims to create new hybrid payments for primary care, reduce cost-sharing for certain primary care services for Medicare beneficiaries, and establish a new technical advisory committee to inform primary care payment rates more accurately. Dr. Hughes co-authored the RFI response along with Dr. Stephanie Gold, associate professor of family medicine and scholar in the Farley Health Policy Center and James C. Puffer, MD/American Board of Family Medicine Fellow in the National Academy of Medicine.
