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 ...

Value-based care prioritizes patient outcomes and cost reduction, requiring alignment of reimbursement models and financial sustainability management. Private insurers are reforming payment models, ...

When I started out as a cardiac device rep, the most expensive implant was often considered the best because of its numerous features and added complexity. By the time I left, most hospitals had ...

As the healthcare industry works to move away from the fee-for-service system, three healthcare stakeholders have teamed up to release a playbook that details the best practices for value-based ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee—Kaiser Permanente caused a stir when it announced nearly two years ago that its new nonprofit subsidiary, Risant Health, was acquiring 10-hospital Geisinger Health. It marked the ...

Is value-based care working in America? It’s a broad question, and the answer you get depends on whom you ask. In a 2023 survey of more than 400 providers, payers and payviders, most said they were ...

Despite spending close to twice as much per person on healthcare, the U.S. achieves worse health outcomes. With U.S. healthcare costs now accounting for close to 20% of the country’s GDP, is the way ...

The term “value-based care” is tossed around like a political football among healthcare policy makers. Nowhere is the meaning of this so variable as in nursing homes. The Nursing Home Value-Based ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to face a string of challenges in trying to attract more fee-for-service medical practices to Medicare's accountable care organizations ...

Privia Health is acquiring a value-based primary care business from Evolent Health as the physician enablement company continues to expand its care delivery network into new geographies. Evolent has ...