Bend the Curve: A Health Care Leader’s Guide to High Value Health Care

Bend the Curve is an innovative educational campaign, developed by NEHI with support from the WellPoint Foundation, aimed at providing health care leaders with actionable ways to reduce spending without lowering quality.

Bend the Curve covers seven critical areas of wasteful health care spending:

The Health Care Leader’s Guide to High Value Health Care provides data to identify where costs can be reduced and offers recommendations for actionable solutions. It also includes real world success stories of health care professionals making important improvements in their organizations. We encourage you to use these tools to educate colleagues, and identify and implement successful solutions to the very real problem of health care waste in your own organizations and communities.

To get involved with Bend the Curve or any of NEHI’s work to improve health care, please contact us.

Explore 7 Ways to Reduce Spending

scroll to view more topics

Reducing Emergency Department Overuse: A $38 Billion Opportunity

Slide 1: Reducing Emergency Department Overuse

Toolkit

Reducing Antibiotic Overuse: A $63 Billion Opportunity

Slide 2: Reducing Antibiotic Overuse

Toolkit

Improving Patient Medication Adherence:A $290 Billion Opportunity

Slide 3: Improving Patient Medication Adherence

Toolkit

Reducing Vaccine Underuse: A $53 Billion Opportunity

Slide 4: Reducing Vaccine Underuse

Toolkit

Preventing Hospital Readmissions: A $25 Billion Opportunity

Slide 5: Preventing Hospital Readmissions

Toolkit

Decreasing Hospital Admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions: A $31 Billion Opportunity

Slide 6: Decreasing Hospital Admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

Toolkit

Preventing Medication Errors: A $21 Billion Opportunity

Slide 7: Preventing Medication Errors

Toolkit