Health Affairs September 30, 2024
Editor’s Note
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, 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 2024. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.
In 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) set a goal to have 100 percent of beneficiaries with traditional Medicare in accountable care by 2030, where they have longitudinal care relationships with providers that are responsible for managing the quality and total cost of their care. High-quality, advanced...