Health Affairs September 16, 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.
On a national level, policymakers are acknowledging the challenges that patients face as they seek primary care. The Senate Finance Committee and other leaders have recently proposed major changes to how we support and fund primary care—especially in Medicare, the nation’s most influential payer. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...