Health Affairs December 10, 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.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) leaders have recently outlined their next steps to advance accountable care in Medicare, and it is important to consider how chronic pain should be addressed within these models. Sixty million people in...