Confronting costs: stabilizing U.S. health spending while moving toward a high performance health care system

Confronting costs: stabilizing U.S. health spending while moving toward a high performance health care system

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Contributor(s):
Schoen, Cathy
Guterman, Stuart.
Zezza, Mark.
Abrams, Melinda.
Commonwealth Fund. Commission on a High Performance Health System.
Commonwealth Fund.
Publication:
[New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, [2013]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Delivery of Health Care -- economics
Delivery of Health Care -- trends
Health Expenditures -- trends
Health Policy -- trends
Health Services -- economics
Quality Assurance, Health Care
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, to hold increases in national health expenditures to no more than long-term economic growth, recommends a set of synergistic provider payment reforms, consumer incentives, and system-wide reforms to confront costs while improving health system performance. This approach could slow spending by a cumulative $2 trillion by 2023--if begun now with public and private payers acting in concert. Payment reforms would: provide incentives to innovate and participate in accountable care systems; strengthen primary care and patient-centered teams; and spread reforms across Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers. With better consumer information and incentives to choose wisely and lower provider administrative costs, incentives would be further aligned to improve population health at more affordable cost. Savings could be substantial for families, businesses, and government at all levels and would more than offset the costs of repealing scheduled Medicare cuts in physician fees.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101603980 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101603980