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Shifting health care resources to proactive care could dramatically reduce spending and improve quality of life for Americans. That was the findings of a recent analysis—Safeguarding Medicare: Proactive Care Could Unlock $500B In Annual Program Savings. Proactive care investments—in prevention, early detection, and behavioral change—could reduce overall Medicare and Medicaid spending by 28%. This type of investment, could, by 2040, reduce per-person costs by 31%—from $23,000 to less than $16,000.

Behavioral health is central to that proactive care savings opportunity (see The Projected Costs And Economic Impact Of Mental Health Inequities In The . . .