Primary Care Collaborative Report Highlights CQC’s Role in Reducing Administrative Burden
The Primary Care Collaborative’s March 2026 report, Simplifying Value-Based Primary Care by Reducing Administrative Burdens, underscores the growing administrative burden facing primary care and its impact on access, quality and clinician capacity.
The report calls for greater alignment across payers, standardization of requirements and shared accountability to reduce complexity and enable more effective value-based care models.
Notably, the report highlights the California Advanced Primary Care Initiative, led by CQC and the Integrated Healthcare Association, as an example of how multi-payer alignment can reduce administrative burden in practice.
Through this initiaive, CQC is actively working with health plans and providers to reduce unnecessary complexity, align expectations and enable primary care practices to operate with greater capacity and capability, allowing teams to focus more time on patient care.