Health Affairs July 22, 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.
As the second Trump administration settles into office and key health care administration leaders are confirmed, health policy experts are speculating about potential revivals of previously shelved Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center models. Chief among these is the 2021 Geographic Direct Contracting (Geo) Model,...







