Health Affairs August 21, 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.
In 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced an administrative benchmark trend, known as the accountable care prospective trend (ACPT), into the formula for trending benchmarks in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). Specifically, for each cohort of accountable care organizations (ACOs) entering in a...
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