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This bill establishes a Medicaid Fund to provide performance-based incentive payments for Medicaid providers and implements quality metrics for Medicaid providers.
Utah has one of the most severe primary care physician shortages in the country. As a medical student, I am warned endlessly of the impending collapse of our primary care system — so much so that this threat has taken on the quality of our other looming existential crisis: the vanishing of our Great Salt Lake.
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Comprehensive primary care promises to transform the U.S. health care system by unlocking powerful health improvements and cost savings for patients and taxpayers. By investing in primary care, lawmakers can improve the health and wellbeing of all Americans.
The package of fact sheets below examines the state of primary care in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Comprehensive primary care promises to transform the U.S. health care system by unlocking powerful health improvements and cost savings for patients and taxpayers. By investing in primary care, lawmakers can improve the health and wellbeing of all Americans.
The fact sheet below examines the state of primary care in Utah.
The bill modifies and repeals reporting provisions related to the Department of Health and Human Services. Specifically, it repeals the requirement to publish annually a report on primary care spending within Utah.
Requires the Health Data Committee to annually issue a report on primary care spending within the state of Utah.
The Utah Department of Health issued a primary care spending report using the state s All Payer Claims Database (APCD). The report uses the Maine Quality Forum s definition of primary care to calculate the total amount of spending on primary health care services as a percentage of all healthcare expenditures. It found that primary care made up a combined 6.4% (narrow definition) and 8.5% (broad definition) of total expenditures in 2019. Primary care decreased from 2018 to 2019 for both Medicaid and commercial payers.