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09/10/2025

The Research Consortium at has a new team member! Please help us welcome our Senior Researcher, Meredith Young! Meredith comes to us from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine with her education from Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and Virginia Tech. We are so excited for her to join us!!
https://www.vahealthinnovation.org/our-team/

09/08/2025

National Academy for State Health Policy and Milbank Memorial Fund's new State Primary Care Policy Menu offers policymakers a menu of five priority areas for action.

Thanks to the work of the Virginia Task Force on Primary Care , Virginia is featured as a state spotlight! Menu item spotlights include:

1. Annual VTFPC recommendations: https://www.vahealthinnovation.org/virginia-task-force-on-primary-care-recommendations-sfy26/

2. Primary Care Scorecard: https://www.vahealthinnovation.org/primary-care-scorecard-dashboard-2025/

3. Use of the All-Payer Claims database (Virginia Health Information)

4. Virginia Primary Care Innovation Hub: https://pcinnovationhub.mn.co/

5. AI Learning Stream: https://pcinnovationhub.mn.co/posts/ai-learning-stream-resource-guide

Read the full menu here for more primary care policy ideas: https://nashp.org/implementing-high-quality-primary-care-a-policy-menu-for-states/

09/04/2025

How would the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule impact physician payments? is breaking down state and federal policy for Virginians with our Capitols to Commonwealth blog.

Keep reading at https://www.vahealthinnovation.org/capitols-to-commonwealth-cms-proposes-paying-physicians-differently/ to learn more!

09/03/2025

Thank you, Jeff Ricketts, Heidi Dix (Virginia Association of Health Plans), Jeff Dobro M.D., FACR (Eudaimonia Concepts), Caleigh Lynch (Rodney Willett), Rachel Rees (Virginia Health Care Foundation), Shelly Smith (UVA Schol of Nursing), Sarah Stanton (Joint Commission on Health Care), and David Vaamonde (Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association) for meeting today to discuss priority research needs for the Research Consortium at VCHI. It was great meeting in person!

09/02/2025

Registration is now OPEN for the Virginia Primary Care Summit! Register now to join us on Wednesday, October 8th, from 8:15-5:00 at the Westin Richmond.

See the full agenda and RSVP at https://www.vahealthinnovation.org/virginia-primary-care-summit-2025/

08/26/2025

To meaningfully and measurably improve the health status of the US population, addressing primary care access challenges should be a top priority. Read the priorities for policy action here: https://doi.org/10.31478/202508d

“Implementing High-Quality Primary Care in 2025: Key Policy Priorities” authored by members of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Standing Committee on Primary Care: Alex H. Krist, Eboni Winford, Mary Wakefield, Yalda Jabbarpour, Deborah J. Cohen, Kevin Grumbach, Michael J. Hasselberg, Beth Bortz, Karen L. Fortuna, Ramon Cancino, Stephanie Gold, Sebastian Tong, Marc Meisnere, and Lauren S. Hughes

08/04/2025

and the Virginia Task Force on Primary Care would like to congratulate Task Force member Shelly Smith of UVA School of Nursing and The Synergy Center for her recent appointment to the Virginia Board of Nursing! https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2025/august/name-1054389-en.html

08/01/2025

The Virginia Task Force on Primary Care published eight recommendations for SFY ‘26. Read them below or on the VCHI website at https://www.vahealthinnovation.org/virginia-task-force-on-primary-care-recommendations-sfy26/

07/30/2025

The Virginia Primary Care Scorecard is an annual tracking tool of the Virginia Task Force on Primary Care to monitor the health and well-being of primary care in Virginia. Interact with detailed data exploration by locality for primary care spend, workforce, use, and outcomes: https://www.vahealthinnovation.org/primary-care-scorecard-dashboard/

07/29/2025

is proud to publish the 2025 Virginia Primary Care Investment Report on behalf of the Virginia Task Force on Primary Care . The report presents an inflation-adjusted, claims-based analysis of primary care investment across major payer types from 2019 to 2023 with estimates derived from the Virginia All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) to inform state policy and guide future recommendations of the Task Force.

Virginia performs worse than the national average on avoidable emergency department use and residents with medical debt, both issues that access to high-quality primary care has been shown to improve. Yet this report shows primary care investment remains largely stagnant as a share of total health spending. Read the full report here: https://www.vahealthinnovation.org/virginia-primary-care-investment-report-2025/

07/24/2025

had the honor of presenting to the Commonwealth’s Joint Commission on Health Care yesterday! Beth Bortz and Lauryn Walker presented updates on the Virginia Task Force on Primary Care state-funded work and its SFY'26 recommendations, as well as 2025 publications and an update from the Research Consortium at VCHI. View the presentation here:https://jchc.virginia.gov/documents/VCHI%20update%207.23.25.pdf

All of our team members in attendance (Beth Bortz, Lauryn Walker, Zelda Hinkle, and Allison Hammond) enjoyed seeing many key players in Virginia healthcare and hearing presentations from Karen Shelton, Virginia Department of Health, Cheryl Roberts, Cardinal Care, and Kyle Russell, Virginia Health Information.

07/22/2025

Today, CSO Lauryn Walker joined Purva Rawal, Former CSO Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center, to present "Unlocking State Levers for Innovation: Leveraging Industry and Federal Partnerships" at the Third Annual Medicaid Leadership Innovation Strategies in D.C. Thank you to all the health plans, state agencies, policy organizations, and more who joined us!

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