General Practioners are Key to Health Insurance Success

Express Healthcare
February 14, 2011

 Health Insurers are experimenting with new strategies to reduce claim expenses to financially feasible levels (less than 90 per cent of premiums) while maintaining affordable premiums for employers and families. They have not yet recognised the power of the general practitioner to improve health and reduce costs through targeted preventive care and chronic disease management...

 Waste has built up in the US healthcare system as a result of payment methods that reward more care rather than better care and a lack of focus on clinical outcomes, prevention and care coordination and management. Waste is estimated to represent nearly one third of total healthcare costs in the US, primarily from unwarranted care and a lack of preventive and coordinated care (The New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) February 2008, Thomson Reuters October 2009, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute, 2008).

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