Recommendations include:

Accelerate value-based care to lower costs for consumers and government.
Eliminate surprise billing to reduce premiums for consumers and employers.
Shift more care to lower-cost sites of service to reduce consumers' out-of-pocket costs.

Enhance the health care experience

The health-care system today is overly complex and challenging to navigate for both consumers and physicians. UnitedHealth makes these recommendations to address a shortage of 50,000 physicians:

Increase engagement in health care to enable consumer empowerment.
Streamline and standardize quality measurement to improve care and reduce physician burden.
Increase workforce capacity to improve the consumer experience and expand access to care.

Drive better health outcomes

Sixty percent of Americans have chronic conditions, and this number is expected to rise with the aging population. UnitedHealth believes the health system should improve care quality to reduce the burden of disease and drive better health outcomes for all Americans. A 40 percent cost reduction with improved health outcomes can be achieved with these steps:

Incentivize and compensate providers for cost-effective, high-quality care.
Reinvent care delivery to prevent chronic disease and address health disparities.
Empower an informed, engaged and aligned health system to reduce the burden of disease.

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