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 ...

Care payment models CMS introduced in 2025 include six new initiatives targeting drug pricing, chronic disease, and specialty care payments.

This article presents challenges and solutions regarding health care–focused large language models (LLMs) and summarizes key recommendations from major regulatory and governance bodies for LLM ...

Since the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has piloted more than 50 alternative payment models (APMs) ...

A survey of all Arizona physicians found that accountable care organization, clinically integrated network, or integrated delivery network participation was associated with higher use of health ...

Google has introduced Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF), a public resource for healthcare developers that provides open-weight models to help them build healthcare applications, initially ...

From 2018 to 2023, the number of concierge and direct primary care practices grew, and there was a substantial shift away from independent ownership. | The number of concierge and direct primary care ...

Despite the ability to collect and analyze far richer health data than ever before, public health and medical experts have failed to use that information to develop new conceptual models for health.

At its core, public health communication is about connecting with people—not just delivering facts, but designing messages that reflect what people need, fear and value. What’s often overlooked is ...