NEW BRIEF: Empowering Providers to Promote Healthcare Innovation
January 4, 2023
Executive Summary
Declining productivity growth in the delivery of healthcare is not innate to the sector. It simply reflects the current policy environment. Incentivizing a more productive and cost-effective healthcare provider sector is possible but requires comprehensive policy reforms that eliminate the obstacles blocking progress. These reforms include:
- Implementing the insurance reforms discussed in Part 5 that, from a provider perspective, will incentivize the creation of innovative payment models. New payment models create opportunities to better align the incentives of providers and patients.
- Implementing regulatory reforms that include eliminating certificate of need laws, scope of practice laws, and interstate licensing obstacles. Reforming these laws would create a more competitive healthcare sector and empower providers to develop innovative methods of delivering higher-quality care at lower costs.
- Sustainably addressing the persistent tort liability costs. The problems created by frivolous and excessively costly litigation drives-up overall healthcare costs and decreases the quality of care. Eliminating this pall of the healthcare sector is essential as a result.
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