Preventive care. According to Brookings, the U.S. is lacking and underutilizing preventive care methods resulting in increased spending on more advanced diseases. Comparatively, the U.S. spends more money on healthcare than any other nation. Chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes are not effectively managed with proven drug therapies and treatments. The health care system does not have enough payment supports needed to improve patient care. While there is underfunding of needed preventive treatment, there is an imbalance in overtreatment or unnecessary care given to patients.
Research show tremendous variations of patients visits to specialist, increase use of procedures, and testing, as well as lengthy in-patient hospital stays. Failure to detect effectiveness of different treatments has contributed to gaps in quality and efficiency of care, especially in lower- income Americans …show more content…
A reform system should reward value before volume, quality before quantity, and organized delivery over disorganized care. It is suggested that cost-sharing requirements and coverage should be a factor that encourages patients to utilize preventive services that could potentially delay or prevent onset chronic diseases.
Actions to improve healthcare quality should begin with Medicare payments as the initial impact geared toward implementing change in care which includes (1) changing the infrastructure of HIT (2) combining primary care and preventive care together (3) devising a new payment system to reduce cost growth and quality improvements. These changes along with the encouragement of Medicare, Medicaid and private payer’s cooperation, will develop accountability to help improve reforms.
VII. Health clinics should be part of an ongoing regimen to improve
Research show tremendous variations of patients visits to specialist, increase use of procedures, and testing, as well as lengthy in-patient hospital stays. Failure to detect effectiveness of different treatments has contributed to gaps in quality and efficiency of care, especially in lower- income Americans …show more content…
A reform system should reward value before volume, quality before quantity, and organized delivery over disorganized care. It is suggested that cost-sharing requirements and coverage should be a factor that encourages patients to utilize preventive services that could potentially delay or prevent onset chronic diseases.
Actions to improve healthcare quality should begin with Medicare payments as the initial impact geared toward implementing change in care which includes (1) changing the infrastructure of HIT (2) combining primary care and preventive care together (3) devising a new payment system to reduce cost growth and quality improvements. These changes along with the encouragement of Medicare, Medicaid and private payer’s cooperation, will develop accountability to help improve reforms.
VII. Health clinics should be part of an ongoing regimen to improve