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Primary Care Access, Delivery, and Payment Task Force

Overview 

In January 2025, Governor Maura Healey signed Chapter 343 of the Acts of 2024. An Act enhancing the market review process. Section 80 establishes a new 25-member task force on primary care access, delivery, and financial sustainability in the Commonwealth, to be co-chaired by the Executive Office of Health and Human Services and the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. The legislation took effect on April 8, 2025.

The Primary Care Access, Delivery, and Payment Task Force first met on April 16, 2025, and plans to continue meeting to advance its goals and deliverables through 2026.  

“Prioritizing investments in primary care will yield cost savings down the road and will help us rebuild the primary care workforce, and it is one of the most meaningful ways to improve the health of our residents.”

—Governor Maura Healey

Membership

Primary Care Access, Delivery, and Payment Task Force membership

Workgroups 

Two workgroups of task force members have been established to focus on specific deliverables: 

Additional workgroups may be established as needed to advance the work of the task force. 

Statutory Deliverables 

The Primary Care Task Force is tasked with issuing a number of deliverables in Chapter 343. This includes recommendations to stabilize and improve primary care access, delivery, and payment. The statute established rolling deadlines into 2026 for each deliverable. The deliverables will be published on the HPC’s website and shared with the Massachusetts Legislature as they are completed.  

Deliverable Statutory Deadline Completed Deliverable
  1. Define primary care services, codes, and providers  
September 15, 2025 Deliverable #1
  1. Develop a standardized set of data and reporting requirements for private and public payers, providers and provider organizations   
September 15, 2025  
  1. Establish a primary care spending target for private and public health care payers that reflects the cost to deliver evidence-based, equitable and culturally competent primary care 
December 15, 2025  
  1. Propose payment models to increase public and private reimbursement for primary care services  
March 15, 2026  
  1. Assess the impact of health plan design on health equity and patient access to primary care services 
March 15, 2026  
  1. Monitor and track the needs of and service delivery to residents of the Commonwealth 
May 15, 2026  
  1. Create short-term and long-term workforce development plans to increase the supply and distribution of and improving working conditions of primary care clinicians and other primary care workers 
May 15, 2026​  

Meetings

All meetings will be livestreamed on the HPC’s website and YouTube Channel. Materials from each meeting are available on the meeting page. 

Primary Task Force Meetings 

Primary Care Task Force Workgroup Meetings 

Resources and Related Work 

Resources Submitted by Task Force Members

Materials linked here have been provided by individual task force members for consideration and do not necessarily represent the views of the HPC, EOHHS, or other task force members.

Stay Connected 

Questions about the work of the Task Force can be directed to [email protected]. 

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Files
PCTF Deliverable 1 - Defining Primary Care.pdf