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Value-based care aims to hold providers accountable for improving patient outcomes while also giving them flexibility to deliver the right care at the right time.

Restructuring primary care in Medicare can address the workforce shortage, improve the health of the population, and create greater equity.

Payment reforms would be game-changing for primary care, particularly if constructed with input and support of diverse stakeholders and communities facing barriers.

CMMI payment and delivery reform models are testing approaches to support beneficiaries with social, economic, and location-based needs that drive health.

Older Black and Latinx adults say a high-performing health system ensures everyone can access quality care from providers who respond to their needs and preferences.

The business case is clear: helping people find safe housing or healthy food reduces use of high-cost health care services and yields savings.

Leveraging the trust that parents place in their pediatricians will be key to vaccinating young children against COVID-19 when they become eligible.

This interactive reviews several provisions of the Affordable Care Act— now 10 years old — designed to reform how the nation organizes, structures, and pays for its health care; those reforms transformed health care delivery and payment across the U.S., reduced costs, and improved quality of care.

A new Commonwealth Fund survey finds that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Black and Latino people, women, and people with lower incomes have faced significantly greater hardships — especially when it comes to mental health — than other groups in the U.S.

The ROI Calculator is designed to help community-based organizations and their health system partners plan sustainable financial arrangements to fund the delivery of social services to high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients. HNHC patients, who account for a large share of overall health care spending, often have social needs, clinically complex conditions, cognitive or physical limitations, and/or behavioral health problems. Research shows that complex patients are likely to benefit from a holistic model of care that addresses the social determinants of health (SDOH) such as transportation, housing, and nutrition, in addition to medical needs.

A new analysis of survey data shows that community health centers have responded to the increase in demand for health services since the Affordable Care Act took effect by improving the care they deliver to patients. Commonwealth Fund researchers show that, between 2013 and 2018, the share of health centers offering same- or next-day appointments, providing access to telephone-based interpreters, leveraging electronic health records and other technology to improve care, and using financial incentives to raise clinical performance has increased.

In this piece, we share low-income patients��� accounts of common challenges faced when trying to obtain care ��� the high cost of care, finding a convenient time to go to the doctor, poor experiences with care, and a lack of trust in the health care system ��� as well as patients��� recommended practical solutions.

More than 10,000 community health center sites across the country are providing high-quality, low-cost health care to 1 in 13, regardless of ability to pay.