A Pro-Consumer Blueprint for Health Care Payment and Delivery Reform [Video]

Five national organizations — Families USA, National Partnership for Women and Families, American Heart Association, National Consumers League, and Third Way — have joined forces to develop a consumer centered policy agenda that shifts America’s health care payment and delivery system away from the inefficiencies of fee-for-service and toward population-based economics. This webinar explored the following recommended policy priorities:

• Improve health outcomes by changing payment incentives to improve health, reduce inequities, and prioritize the delivery of high-value care over volume of services.
• Strengthen primary care, behavioral health, and long-term care systems by investing in services that keep people healthy, address chronic illness, and prevent the need to use more expensive care settings.
• Ensure strong patient protections and guardrails in health care payment systems to ensure medically underserved, chronically ill, and disabled patients have full and complete access to high-quality, culturally-congruent care and services.
• Establish national data-sharing, interoperability, and quality measurement standards, to reduce waste, enable real-time coordination of services across …