Healthcare Innovation May 20, 2022
Oregon is requiring coordinated care organizations and commercial carriers to allocate 12 percent of their medical spending to primary care by 2023
State governments are exploring different approaches to increasing the percentage of overall healthcare spending that goes to primary care, while also trying to decrease overall spending.
During a recent webinar, Diana Crumley, senior program officer at the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), said that in the United States, we spend about 5 to 8 percent of our healthcare dollars on primary care. Other high-income countries spend about 14 percent. “That puts us at the bottom of the list in terms of primary care access,” she said.
In a recent blog post, Anne Smithey, a program officer at...
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