What is Primary Care AHEAD?

A voluntary, beneficiary-focused advanced primary care program designed to align Medicare with state-led primary care efforts. It has an overarching, flexible framework of care transformation priorities that will complement statewide Medicaid primary care priorities. Primary Care AHEAD is intended to increase overall capacity for care coordination and connection to community resources, improve quality, offer whole person-centered care, and minimize provider burden.

For the full All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model Primary Care AHEAD Factsheet, please click here.

Materials from April 24, 2024 TOC/HTAC Meeting

• Proposed Ahead Medicare Savings Test with Administratively Set Trend
• Total Cost of Care Workgroup Meeting Slides

Materials from April 23, 2024 MDPCP Update CRISP Summit Meeting

• Presentation on AHEAD and Physician Alignment Programs from the CRISP User Summit
• MDPCP Update CRISP Summit Meeting Recording
  This discussion is comprised of a panel of Maryland’s healthcare leaders who will discuss the ongoing transformation throughout the state i.e. the AHEAD Model. Topics will range from effective partnership strategies to the evolution of the Total Cost of Care Model. Each panelist has a unique perspective on CRISP’s delivery system and will share how we can all be best positioned to provide high quality care.

Additional Resources

• HSCRC AHEAD Model Resource Page
• MedChi Letter to Secretary Scott Re: AHEAD Model Recommendations (7/19/2024)
• Summary of the Maryland AHEAD Model State Agreement (10/30/2024)
• AHEAD Model Primary Care Town Hall (2/10/2025)

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Videos

Final MD AHEAD State Agreement

State Agreement Public Summary