Here are those five strategies:

Improve the health of individuals and communities. This includes increasing access to primary care and prevention, improving transparency of pricing information, revising the tax code to protect patients from catastrophic costs, modifying requirements for high-deductible plans, and engaging individuals in their health and health care.
Transform care delivery. Actions to improve affordability through value-based care transformation include enhancing Accountable Care Organizations, reforming the medical liability system, decreasing variation in care, removing legal barriers to collaboration, and better managing advanced illness.
Reduce administrative waste in the system. Keys to successfully integrating this strategy include reducing regulatory friction, standardizing insurance information and claims adjudication, shifting patient cost-sharing collection to health plans, eliminating fraud and abuse, and streamlining physician licensing and credentialing.
Lower drug and device costs. This involves mitigating patient-driven demand for specific high-cost therapies, incentivizing patients to use more cost-effective drugs, and paying for value.
Innovate to improve care outcomes. This includes expanding access to predictive analytics and early-detection tools, using data-driven tools to prevent avoidable harm and utilization, improving access to health information technology, advancing technology-enabled care models, and aligning payment with proven digital innovations.

"We call on purchasers, policymakers, technology companies, drug and supply manufacturers, and individuals to collaborate with us on these efforts," the AHA urges.

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AHA issues 'blueprint' for more affordable, accessible, and enhanced health care

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