Concerns about health care affordability, intensifying scrutiny of rebate practices, and new pricing models are creating ...

Value-based care has largely won the policy debate in American healthcare. Across Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and commercial insurance, payment models increasingly tie reimbursement to ...

The bill previously cleared both the Senate Health & Social Services and Finance Committees earlier this spring.

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 ...

Medicare Advantage members in value-based care arrangements had 24.3% fewer inpatient hospital admissions than those in Original Medicare in 2024. Humana Medicare Advantage members receiving ...

For many years, the American health care system has followed a simple model: Pay providers for the services they deliver. This fee-for-service model, still used today, pays providers based on the ...

Private health insurance premiums will be going up in 2026 – in some cases, by a lot. Congressional Democrats and Republicans remain deadlocked on health care reform, following disagreements over ...