Funding For Local Public Health: A Renewed Path For Critical Infrastructure

Discussion Ultimately, it will take creative approaches to finance public health 3.0 and fulfill the attributes and principles described above. Taking the health system down a different path where public health contributes to value-based health, will require a broad national consensus among stakeholders. Here are some potential structures for innovative funding of public health in the 3.0 era: 1. Federal incentives for building local public health capacity The federal government can take a stronger role in incentivizing states to invest more in public health capacity by creating a matching requirement for many federal public health programs. This is not unlike the Medicaid program, where the federal government expects states to be partners in meeting a shared goal. 2. Leveraging new health care financing models As the health care system increasingly moves toward a value-based approach to financing health care, the incentive to support population level public health initiatives increases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation should jointly test initiatives that support public health-health care system collaborations using value-based payment models. 3. Identifying new and innovative public-private partnerships that could support value-based public health There is exciting, but nascent, interest in venture capital approaches to advancing population health and public health capacity through pay-for-success models, in...
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