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Long before the realization of the Affordable Care Act<\/strong>, health care costs outstripped inflation, without\u00a0paralleled\u00a0improvements in health care quality<\/em>. The system did not reward quality or efficiency. Providers were paid for the quantity of care, rather than the quality. And technology was not a factor in delivering smarter care.<\/p>\n

The Affordable Care Act<\/strong> offers a process to improve the quality of health care and lower costs for the individual and the nation as a whole. This helps alleviate making costly mistakes and readmissions, keeping patients healthy, incentivizing quality instead of quantity, and creating the health information technology infrastructure that enables innovative payment and delivery models.<\/p>\n

(Read more: Pat Summit Meets a diagnosis of Dementia Head-On<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Below you will discover a few ways that the health care law constructs a smarter health care system and incentivizes quality of care over quantity of care, to lower costs and save the individual money.<\/p>\n

Quality, Not Quantity<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Long before the realization of the Affordable Care Act, health care costs outstripped inflation, without\u00a0paralleled\u00a0improvements in health care quality. The system did not reward quality or efficiency. Providers were paid for the quantity of care, rather than the quality. And…<\/span><\/p>\n

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