2026 Health Policy Update: What Primary Care Practices Need to Know to Succeed

As 2026 begins, primary care practices are navigating a fast-changing policy environment with major implications for payment, risk, and day-to-day operations. This on-demand webinar, “2026 Health Policy Update: What Primary Care Practices Need to Know to Succeed,” is designed to help you quickly get oriented—and turn complex rules into practical next steps for your practice.

In this 30-minute session, Penny Morris, MPH, CIPM, Senior Regulatory and Compliance Manager at Elation Health, breaks down the most important federal updates affecting primary care in 2026, including:

• Key changes to the 2026 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)—dual conversion factors, efficiency adjustments, and site-of-service shifts that are moving more support toward independent, office-based practices.
• How MIPS is evolving (including MIPS Value Pathways) and what stability vs. change looks like for primary care clinicians over the next few years.
• The roles of MSSP ACO and ACO REACH as progression paths into advanced alternative payment models—and how small practices can realistically approach year one.
• New and emerging models like Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM) and the ACCESS model, and what they mean for longitudinal, team-based, outcomes-focused care.
• Why quality reporting and data strategy (eCQMs, CQMs, and claims-based measures) are central to getting paid accurately for the care you already provide—and how to align contracts, EHR workflows, and documentation.

Whether you are currently in traditional MIPS, participating in an ACO, or just beginning to evaluate value-based options, this webinar will help you:

• Understand where 2026 policy changes create risk and opportunity for primary care
• Identify which levers you can pull to support financial stability while staying true to relationship-based care
• Clarify what questions to ask of your EHR, ACO administrator, or partners as you plan your 2026–2030 strategy