Health Affairs March 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.
Accountable care can be a useful tool for providing safety-net providers with more sustainable and flexible financing for meeting their patients’ needs. However, most safety-net organizations face multiple existing barriers to advancing accountable care in the safety net. Further, accountable care is at an inflection point, and several...