KFF Health News November 21, 2024
A California agency charged with slowing health costs has set a lofty goal for insurers to direct 15% of their spending to primary care by 2034, part of the state’s effort to expand the primary care workforce and give more people access to preventive care services.
The board of the state Office of Health Care Affordability in October set its benchmark well above the industry’s current 7% primary care spending rate, in hopes of improving Californians’ health and reducing the need for costlier care down the road.
“It’s ambitious but achievable,” said Elizabeth Landsberg, director of the state’s Department of Health Care Access and Information, which oversees the affordability agency. “Plans and health systems need time to build the infrastructure...
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