Despite decades of research linking primary care to better health outcomes and lower costs, a new report shows the United States continues to devote only a small fraction of health spending to primary care, and that share is slipping. According to the report, which looked at data from 2022 and was published by the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), primary care accounted for just 4.39% of total medical and prescription spending among people with employer-sponsored insurance in 2022, down from 4.93% in 2018. Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries fared worse, with primary care spending falling from 4.24% to 3.86% over the same period.
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Source: https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/primary-care-accounts-for-just-4-of-u-s-health-spending-hcci-report-finds