Health Affairs September 11, 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 structure of clinician payment policy in Medicare Part B has been an elusive target with many attempts to optimize the system by policy makers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Problems with quality of care and cost inflation in the 1990s and 2000s led to establishment...