Chartbook on Care Affordability

1. Making care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care.
2. Ensuring that each person and family is engaged as partners in their care.
3. Promoting effective communication and coordination of care.
4. Promoting the most effective prevention and treatment practices for the leading causes of mortality, starting with cardiovascular disease.
5. Working with communities to promote wide use of best practices to enable healthy living.
6. Making quality care more affordable for individuals, families, employers, and governments by developing and spreading new health care delivery models.

Care Affordability is one of the six national priorities identified by the National Quality Strategy (http://www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/index.html).

Go to: National Quality Strategy Priority in Action: Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts Alternative Quality Contract.

National Quality Strategy Priority 6

The National Quality Strategy recognizes that while this will be a challenge, the goal of reducing health care costs is important to everyone because of the impact of rising costs on families, employers, and State and Federal governments. Reducing costs must be considered hand in hand with the aims of better care, healthier people and communities, and affordable care.

The National Quality Strategy will foster strategies that reduce waste from undue administrative burdens and make health care costs and quality more transparent to consumers and providers so they can make better choices and decisions.

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