Although preventative services such as routine well-
care visits and immunizations have often shown to
be beneficial in terms of preventing future, more
expensive, health care encounters, not all insurance
plans offer reimbursement for such things. In
addition, health care policies have only recently
begun to recognize the “worth” of funding
prevention-related services.
1. Why do you believe that funding preventive
health care services has taken so long to
become a major component of health plans?
2. What do you think will need to happen to
change the prevailing mindset of funding
health care services reactively versus
proactively from a third-party payer’s and a
provider’s? Why?
