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The Lakewood-based Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative announcee theinitiative Thursdsay. The two-yeae project is designed to give participating doctorws better financial incentives for prescribing preventive care that mayimprovd patients’ health and hold down medical costs. A spokeswomann for the organization couldn’t peg the total amoun t of money to be given byprivatw insurers, but said it involved “significant Participating physicians will receive a standard fee for service, a monthlt care management fee and bonuses for meeting or exceedinh quality outcomes outlined in the The program will cover about 25,000 patientsd in participating family practices.
The program also will alloqw graduates from medical residency programs to participatwe inthe program, in an effort to attract more primaryu care physicians to the state. The program will providre participating practiceswith in-office coaching and technologyu through grants totaling $2.8 million from The Colorado the Commmonwealth Fund and the Colorado Healthb Foundation. The Harvard School of Public Health will monitofrprogram results.