Accountability for Health Care Costs & Results Could Be the Key to Curb Spending Growth

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Feature Editor’s note: If all parties in the American health care system—provider organizations, patients, insurers, employers, and government agencies—focused on increasing their accountability for health care costs and results, the United States could realize a substantial decrease in current and long-run costs. A focus on accountability would also lead to an improvement in health care quality. Because the American health care system lacks this focus, a group of 10 experts convened by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform proposed a series of mutually-reinforcing accountability-focused reforms that could lead . . .