This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Value-based care prioritizes patient outcomes and cost reduction, requiring alignment of reimbursement models and financial sustainability management. Private insurers are reforming payment models, ...

When I started out as a cardiac device rep, the most expensive implant was often considered the best because of its numerous features and added complexity. By the time I left, most hospitals had ...

Is value-based care working in America? It’s a broad question, and the answer you get depends on whom you ask. In a 2023 survey of more than 400 providers, payers and payviders, most said they were ...

Just over three-quarters of health system and hospital C-suites say they plan to increase value-based care model participation within the next two years, up from the 57% who indicated similarly back ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee—Kaiser Permanente caused a stir when it announced nearly two years ago that its new nonprofit subsidiary, Risant Health, was acquiring 10-hospital Geisinger Health. It marked the ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to face a string of challenges in trying to attract more fee-for-service medical practices to Medicare's accountable care organizations ...