12510. THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE. This paper seeks to provide a general summary and analysis of the financial impact of preventive care. The analysis begins with an overview of the intuitive arguments suggesting the clinical and cost effectiveness of preventive health care. The next section examines the methodology (and problems therein) of assessing the financial impact of preventive care. A concluding section reviews the recent literature on the problems and promises of preventive health care. 16 pages, 4 footnotes, 3 bibliographic sources.