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FY 2024 Annual Performance Plan and Report - Strategic Goal 1








  
  
    

  
      



Fiscal Year 2024
Released March, 2023

**Objective 1.1:** **Increase choice, affordability, and enrollment in high-quality healthcare coverage**

**Objective 1.2:  Reduce costs, improve quality of healthcare services, and ensure access to safe medical devices and drugs**

**Objective 1.3:  Expand equitable access to comprehensive, community-based, innovative, and culturally-competent healthcare services, while addressing social determinants of health**

**Objective 1.4:  Drive the integration of behavioral health into the healthcare system to strengthen and expand access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment and recovery services for individuals and families**

**Objective 1.5:  Bolster the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care**

Strategic Goal 1: Protect and Strengthen Equitable Access to High Quality and Affordable Healthcare

HHS works to protect and strengthen equitable access to high quality and affordable healthcare.  Increasing choice, affordability and enrollment in high-quality healthcare coverage is a focus of the Department’s efforts in addition to reducing costs, improving quality of healthcare services, and ensuring access to safe medical devices and drugs.  HHS also works to expand equitable access to comprehensive, community-based, innovative, and culturally- and linguistically-appropriate healthcare services while addressing social determinants of health.  The Department is driving the integration of behavioral health into the healthcare system to strengthen and expand access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment and recovery services for individuals and families.  HHS also bolsters the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care.

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