PCPCC July, 2019
In a first-of-its-kind study, this year’s report examines states’ primary care spending patterns, including spending across payer types, and considers the implications of these results for select patient outcomes.
Executive Summary
IMPORTANCE OF THE RESEARCH
Consistent and growing evidence shows that primary care-oriented systems achieve better health outcomes, more health equity, and lower costs. Yet, despite this strong evidence that primary care is associated with the outcomes that policymakers and patients seek, such care has been chronically underfunded in the United States. On average, the United States invests 5%-7% of total health care spending on primary care. Health systems in other industrialized nations spend twice that or more (e.g., the average among OECD countries is 14%) .
This underinvestment in...
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