Supporting Independent Practices in Mediciad AHEAD

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About the Medicaid Primary Care Program

The Medicaid Advanced Primary Care Program is part of Maryland's broader AHEAD (Achieving Healthcare Efficiency through Accountable Design) Model.

The program focuses on strengthening primary care through:

Improved access to comprehensive primary care services
Proactive identification and management of high-risk patients
Better care coordination and transitions of care
Addressing social determinants of health (SDOH)
Improved preventive care and patient engagement
Enhanced quality reporting and performance improvement
Greater alignment between Medicare and Medicaid care transformation

Participating practices must navigate clinical, administrative, data exchange, and care transformation requirements.

Netrin helps translate these requirements into practical, sustainable workflows.

Who Is Eligible?

Maryland-based primary care practices or a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).
Practices that are using a certified EHR
Practices that have a panel size of at least 250 HealthChoice (Maryland Medicaid) members
Must plan to co-participate in both Medicare and Medicaid AHEAD programs by 2027.

How it Works

To support care transformation efforts, Maryland’s Medicaid Advanced Primary Care Program (MAPCP / Medicaid Path) offers participating primary care practices transformative new revenue streams

Care management fees every quarter
Performance-based incentive payments every year
Increase of Medicare PFS on every eligible office visit claim

Choosing Netrin Health as Your Partner

Transforming Medicaid Primary Care. Simplifying Practice Operations.

Your Partner in Medicaid Care Transformation

Maryland's Medicaid Advanced Primary Care Program (MAPCP), part of the AHEAD Model, is designed to strengthen primary care, improve care coordination, address health disparities, and support better outcomes for Medicaid patients.

Netrin Health helps participating practices navigate the operational, clinical, and reporting requirements of Medicaid AHEAD through comprehensive practice transformation support, population health analytics, and dedicated program guidance.

Our goal is simple: Reduce the administrative burden on your practice so you can focus on delivering quality patient care.

Comprehensive Medicaid AHEAD Support From Netrin Health

1. Program Administration & Compliance

Netrin helps practices manage administrative responsibilities, including practitioner roster management, business change coordination, program guidance, reporting deadlines, and ongoing compliance support.

2. Clinical Data Integration & Care Coordination

We support patient panel submissions, CRISP health information exchange workflows, hospital admission and discharge notifications, risk stratification, and transitions of care to help practices identify and respond to patient needs.

3. Quality Reporting & Care Transformation

Netrin supports electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) reporting, annual Care Transformation Requirement (CTR) submissions, outreach to unengaged Medicaid members, and audit readiness.

4. Population Health Analytics & Performance Intelligence

Using available clinical and payer data, Netrin helps practices identify high-risk patients, prioritize care opportunities, monitor population health performance, and translate information into actionable interventions.

5. Practice Transformation & Workflow Optimization

We work with practices to assess and improve clinical workflows, optimize EHR processes, implement SDOH screening workflows, and integrate care transformation activities into everyday operations.

6. Pediatric & Family Practice Support

For practices serving children, Netrin supports applicable developmental and autism screening workflows, school and childcare documentation processes, and pediatric-specific program requirements.

7. Dedicated Practice Partnership

Netrin provides ongoing program guidance, deadline and deliverable management, issue resolution, performance reviews, and dedicated practice support to help practices remain prepared throughout the program.

Services are available based on the selected Netrin partnership arrangement.

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Testimonials

"The support we receive from Netrin is invaluable. The Medicaid AHEAD reporting requirements are complex and very labor intensive. We simply don't have the internal resources to manage all the reporting, regulatory compliance, and care"

Office Manager

Medpeds

“Netrin has really helped us to modernize our practice by adding new modalities that enhance our day-to-day patient care. They used updated technology with remote patient monitoring devices which allow us to keep a handle on patients with chronic health issues. The process of getting that data connected well and integrated saves us a lot of time while avoiding a lot of complications.”

Jonathan Plotsky, MD

Plotsky Medical Associates, PC – Rockville, MD

“Netrin has been our partner for all our value-based care programs. We are happy that Netrin has now chosen to become a Care Transformation Organization. Netrin has guided us well thus far, and we will continue to work with Netrin as part of the AHEAD program."

Venkat Ramanan, MD

Patel, Ramanan & Associates – Waldorf, MD

“Every day, Netrin and its team amaze me with their level of innovation and creativity. We are a Davies award-winning practice and have been early adopters of EHRs since 2003, and Netrin is our perfect partner for all of our health transformation programs, including the Maryland [Primary Care] Program.”

Seth Eaton, MD

MedPeds, LLC – Laurel, MD

"Netrin helps primary care providers stay independent by letting them come together and share resources, providing the support that they do not have internally. Having an organization like Netrin helps us take advantage of additional services and support mechanisms that enhance our patient care, which has been really the key to our success in value-based care."

Angela Marshall, MD, FACP

Comprehensive Women's Health - Silver Spring, MD