Health Affairs March 14, 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.
Medicare is responsible for more than one in five dollars spent on health care in the United States. Given its size and mission, Medicare programs and policies have a major role in transitioning the health care system away from fee-for-service payment, which incentivizes the quantity of care, and toward value-based...