Currently, the CBO has a 10-year scoring window to determine budget savings for governmental programs. The proposed legislation, which originally hit the floor in 2009, would allow the CBO to analyze data on the budget savings of preventive health initiatives beyond the 10-year window.
“Congress needs to see the full picture of how wellness programs improve population health and not just the initial price tag,” HLC President Mary Grealy said in the news release. “The fact is that a program launched today to, for example, reduce obesity and curb the escalation in diabetes cases may not display its full return on investment in 10 years. We shouldn’t ignore the long-term savings to our healthcare system just because they don’t show up within an arbitrary period of time.”
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