Success with value-based contracts will be critical for every healthcare organization and will become an even greater imperative over time, as more and more revenue is tied to such models. CMS, the ...

Payment reform in healthcare and the shift to value-based care are prompting hospitals and healthcare providers to more intently manage the health of overall populations or segments of populations. As ...

Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) can focus our attention and propel needed action to improve total population health, the authors argue. Neither care delivery nor public health systems have grappled ...

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 ...

Hospitals and health systems' relationships with physicians remain a pivotal factor driving efficient and economically sustainable patient care as healthcare evolves through technological advances, ...

COVID-19 devastated New York City (NYC), leading to 4.6 years of lost life expectancy between 2019 and 2020, the first time in more than a century that NYC experienced a substantial decline. Declines ...

Hospitals and health systems' relationships with physicians remain a pivotal factor driving efficient and economically sustainable patient care as health care evolves through technological advances, ...