Selected Potential Health Care Reform Approaches

• Provide more transparency in connection with health care costs and outcomes.

• Employ case management approaches for people with expensive acute and chronic conditions to improve the quality and efficiency of care delivered and avoid inappropriate care.

• Leverage the government's purchasing authority to foster value-based purchasing for health care products and services.

• Foster the use of information technology to increase consistency, transparency, and accountability in health care.

• Provide additional cost sharing mechanisms for individuals.

• Develop a set of national practice standards to help avoid unnecessary care, improve outcomes, and reduce litigation.