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 ...

Across the country, pediatric care systems are delivering high quality, increasingly complex care in environments that no longer resemble those in which many Medicaid payment models were designed. The ...

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 ...

Primary care physicians are often called the quarterbacks of healthcare because they coordinate and direct patients’ journeys through the medical system. On a typical NFL team, the quarterback is the ...

It’s a hell of a starting point: The work of providing primary care is already overwhelming. But trying to get paid for that work in the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) payment system has become ...

Among the many sweeping changes to the Medicaid program included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”), Congress established new statutory caps on state-directed payments (“SDPs”) in Medicaid ...

Long-standing workforce challenges in Medicaid home care (also known as home- and community-based services or HCBS) impact care for the over 5 million people who use these services. Shortages and high ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—The state hit the brakes on planned changes to how Ohio child care providers are paid for publicly funded day care, as the Trump administration studies and possibly alters a Biden-era ...

Medicare doctors are set to receive a modest pay increase next year. When Congress enacted President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025,” they included a one-time 2.5 percent pay hike for ...

CMS introduced several new care and payment models in 2025, many focused on drug pricing, chronic disease management and prevention: 1. CMS published plans Dec. 23 for its voluntary “Better Approaches ...