How will Prescription for Pennsylvania reduce the cost of health care?
Prescription for Pennsylvania will reduce the cost of health care by: • Working with health care facilities to prevent health care facility acquired infections (HAIs) and focusing on patient safety to reduce medical errors, both of which cost billions of dollars in avoidable hospital charges. • Expanding access to qualified health care providers, especially those providers who are not physicians; and providing incentives for health care providers who offer evening and weekend hours to reduce unnecessary use of expensive hospital emergency rooms. • Providing the uninsured the opportunity to buy into PA ABC at a subsidized rate for those with incomes under 200% of the Federal Poverty Level and allowing others to buy it at cost. This will help reduce the cost of uncompensated care for the uninsured. • Changing how chronic disease care is delivered in Pennsylvania by providing incentives for the use of nationally recognized Chronic Care Models, which have been shown to significantly reduce
