MedCity News January 25, 2024
Jason Helgerson

Despite the significant challenges to improving U.S. health outcomes while reducing healthcare spending, I am heartened by the exciting ways in which government organizations and the private sector are innovating and deploying new technologies that can achieve these goals.

American healthcare is highly inefficient. Across a variety of long-term health and treatment outcomes and patient safety metrics, the U.S. has lower performance compared with countries of similar economic status, despite spending more money per capita than its peers. In 2022, the U.S. spent an estimated $12,555 per person on healthcare — the highest among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) countries and nearly double the average for wealthy OECD countries (excluding the U.S.). With U.S. national health expenditures expected...

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Topics: CMS, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payment Models, Provider, Value Based
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