Health and Retirement Committee
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The high cost of health care imposes an enormous burden on all Americans -- raising the cost of health insurance coverage for those who have coverage and those who do not have coverage. Business Roundtable supports policies that will provide greater accountability, enhance efficiency and create value for all consumers of health care services. Read more about Health Care Value.
Health Care Value
The high cost of health care imposes an enormous burden on all Americans -- raising the cost of health insurance coverage for those who have coverage and those who do not have coverage. Business Roundtable supports policies that will provide greater accountability, enhance efficiency and create value for all consumers of health care services.
Business Roundtable specifically supports expanding the use of health information technology, dissemination of consumer information on the cost and quality of health care and comparison of the effectiveness of health care services and supplies; and promotion of changing payments by public and private payers, including Medicare, to reward value of services provided, not volume.
Business Roundtable has long advocated making Part B Medicare claims data available so that payers may aggregate their own claims data with Medicare data to have a broader and reliable measure of the quality of care rendered by health care providers and their relative performance in treating important medical conditions. Combining Medicare with private claims data will also permit consumers to have more accurate cost information.