Across the nation, states are beginning to recognize the central role primary care plays in promoting happy, healthy communities. Use our state investment hub to explore how state-level policymakers are promoting primary care.
Decades of research have shown that increased investments in primary care leads to higher-quality and more equitable care as well as lower costs. Higher investment in primary care is associated with lower costs, higher patient satisfaction, fewer hospitalizations and emergency department visits, and lower mortality.
For patients, health care stakeholders, policymakers and large employers, shifting resources to person-centered, community-oriented primary care is a policy imperative.
That’s why state governments are starting to take action. In more than one-third of states, stakeholders and policymakers have come together to reorient their health system toward primary care through laws or regulations that track and improve investment in primary care over time.
This interactive map allows users to view state-based investment initiatives grouped by state.
