WHAT IS THE PCPCM?

The Person-Centered Primary Care Measure (PCPCM) is an 11-item patient-reported measure that assesses primary care aspects rarely captured yet thought responsible for primary care effects on population health, equity, quality, and sustainable expenditures. These include: accessibility, comprehensiveness, integration, coordination, relationship, advocacy, family and community context, goal-oriented care, and disease, illness, and prevention management. A New Comprehensive Measure of High-Value Aspects of Primary Care, published in the Annals of Family Medicine, explains the process taken to develop the PCPCM, as well as its reliability and validity.

Created by the Larry A. Green Center, the PCPCM is a simple, clear, and powerful instrument that captures patient voice and assessment of primary care. To learn more about the PCPCM, click here.

The PCPCM PRO-PM is endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), is part of the Core Quality Measures Collaborative primary care measure set. The PCPCM is being used by the CMS Innovation Center in their Making Care Primary and ACO Primary Care Flex payment models.