Health Affairs June 16, 2025
Aaron R. Wells, William Walters, Richard Hughes IV

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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 patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care. Additional articles will be published throughout 2025. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this featured topic. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.

Formal value-based payment programs have operated nationally at least since the 2008 enactment of the Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act (MIPPA). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has primarily overseen these programs for the entirety of their existence, yet 17 years later, there is...

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