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 ...

The financial collapse of the US’s rural hospitals remains one of the most persistent and urgent crises in health care policy. Since 2005, more than 180 rural hospitals have shuttered, and more than a ...

Small- and medium-sized medical groups are confronted with questions of survival on an ever-increasing basis. Health systems are acquiring physician practices, and it is becoming more difficult for ...