Health Affairs May 28, 2025
Editor’s Note
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.
In 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented important changes to how spending targets, known as benchmarks, are set in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) for accountable care organizations (ACOs) entering new five-year agreement periods. Among these, CMS introduced an Accountable Care Prospective Trend...







