Advancing Prevention and Value-Based Care to Improve Healthcare Affordability

HLC convened senior leaders from across the healthcare sector to identify practical, cross-sector ways to advance prevention and value-based care to improve healthcare affordability. The discussion revealed persistent challenges in aligning how value is defined, measured, financed, and put into practice. Participants proposed a path forward to move from model-by-model debates toward a shared set of principles: patient-centered outcomes, prevention where evidence supports it, coordinated care, common data infrastructure, balanced risk, and payment incentives that reward quality and safety rather than volume.