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Join us each month for PRIME Time with Dr. Yu, an interactive webinar series that explores practical issues facing primary care, and helpful tools and resources within the PRIME Registry designed to address them.

This Month’s Webinar is December 18 at 4:30 PM EST

Join us on December 18 at 4:30 PM for this month’s PRIME TIME with Dr. Yu featuring special guest Dr. Bob Phillips to discuss exciting new developments in the PRIME Registry.

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Explore past episodes below.

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November 20, 2025

The November edition of Prime Time with Dr. Yu featured Travis Broom, SVP of Policy and Economics at Aledade, who discussed key changes in the Medicare physician fee schedule rule and CMS initiatives for value-based care programs. The conversation covered various healthcare quality reporting changes, including shifts in patient counting methods and the impact of new regulations on ACOs and FQHCs, while also addressing challenges with Medicaid coverage and rural health transformation programs. The conversation ended with discussions about Medicaid ACOs, the importance of technology in patient care, and plans for expanding access to the Prime Registry.

September 25, 2025

Dr. Garrett Kneese, a recent residency graduate and Policy Fellow at the Washington DC-based Center for Professionalism & Value in Healthcare (CPV) joined Dr. Yu to talk about his work with the CPV, and his work with the PRIME Registry, its population health tool, PHATE, and the advantages and opportunities PRIME Registry provides for value-based care initiatives.

July 31, 2025

Special guest Jay Fetter joined Dr. Yu for this episode to talk about Residency Redesign in Family Medicine. Jay, who has been involved in residency redesign studies for 20 years, highlighted the need to adapt residency programs to evolving patient care needs. The conversation took place at the AFP’s Future of Family Medicine Conference in Kansas City, where thousands of medical students, residents, and faculty gathered to discuss the future of family medicine.

June 25, 2025

Dr. Kim Yu and Chelsea Henson focus on hypertension control and optimizing performance improvement in this episode of PRIME Time. They discuss strategies for managing hypertension, including training clinical staff, implementing patient self-monitoring, and using the Prime Registry to track and improve healthcare measures. They also talk about the importance of accurate data reporting, best practices for hypertension management, and the use of Prime Registry as a tool for comparing practice performance and negotiating with payers.

May 27, 2025

In this episode, Dr. Kim Yu and Jill Shoemaker are joined by Poonam Bal, who provides an overview of her work at the Center for Professionalism and Value in Healthcare. Poonam explains the development of various healthcare measures, including the “Measures That Matter” initiative and specific measures like continuity of care, emphasizing their importance in improving patient outcomes and reducing costs. The discussion concludes with a presentation on patient satisfaction surveys and the Physician Trust measure, demonstrating how to access and view survey data in the Prime Registry PRO module.

Apr 17, 2025

Dr. Kim Yu is joined by Jill Shuemaker, Clinician Measures Director for the Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care. Dr. Yu and Jill discuss the evolution of quality improvement work in medical practices and the advantages of using a registry, such as providing data for point-of-care tests and measuring performance at various levels.

Mar 26, 2025

Dr. Kim Yu discusses recent changes in healthcare programs, the functionalities of the Prime Registry, its impact on value-based care, and the valuable tools and features of the registry, including quality measure dashboards, population health mapping, and the patient reported outcomes platform.

Feb 25, 2025

In this first episode of PRIME Time with Dr. Yu, Dr. Kim Yu is joined by representatives from the American Board of Family Medicine and the Center for Professionalism and Value in Healthcare. They discuss PRIME Registry’s features, including patient-reported outcomes, population health mapping, and data aggregation for reporting purposes. The discussion also covered the importance of accurate data for defending practices and improving patient care, as well as potential applications of the Prime Registry in state-wide healthcare initiatives.