Pediatric care not failing as Medicaid payment design lags behind modern pediatric medicine, impacting workforce and program sustainability.

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Bill Cassidy, M.D., want to reform how primary care providers get paid through Medicare, and they also want to hear from the healthcare industry about the best way to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...