Maryland Primary Care Program
The Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP) is a statewide program that provides financial support to primary care practices to promote care management and care coordination to improve health outcomes for your patients. MDPCP includes two track options - an upside-only risk model (Track 2) or a downside risk option for more advanced primary care practices (Track 3). Participating in either track of MDPCP:
Provides a Guaranteed, Prospective Care Management Fee for attributed Medicare patients for:

tools to enhance practice efficiency and effectiveness

Improving care coordination for rising risk patients

Multi-disciplinary staffing to better manage care for complex patients
Increases Your Practice Revenue



Offers Advantages not Available Through ACOs
Choosing to participate in MDPCP creates a great opportunity for practices interested in value-based care focused on care management enhancements that result in practice level investment and rewards.
ACO | MDPCP | |
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Care management funding | No direct support | Prospective quarterly payment based on track and attributed patient risk scoring |
Performance-based payments | Retrospective, paid for ACO-wide performance | Prospective, paid for practice-specific performance |
Risk model | Downside risk | Upside only risk in Track 2 with downside risk applied to practices in track 3 |
Payment for social needs | No direct payment | Nation’s first direct payments for patients with both medical and social needs called the Health Equity Advancement Resource and Transformation (HEART) payments that are no subject to risk |