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.
Patients, clinicians and employers in the US have long been promised higher healthcare quality at lower cost, but healthcare costs per capita remain higher in the US than in any other established economy, without evidence of comparably higher quality of care. For the past two decades, much hope...







