Community health work (CHW) models have traditionally been undervalued and under-utilized. In this article, the authors synthesize key barriers, opportunities, and policy recommendations to support ...

Google has introduced Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF), a public resource for healthcare developers that provides open-weight models to help them build healthcare applications, initially ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Thursday the Innovation in Behavioral Health Model, a new approach that is designed to test for improving outcomes for adults with mental health ...

Specialty behavioral health practices will be incentivized to coordinate comprehensive health. The CMS Innovation Center will soon issue a Notice of Funding Opportunity for its new Innovation in ...

The CMS agency that tests value-based payment models hopes to announce two new models in behavioral health and maternal health later this year, according to Liz Fowler, director of the Center for ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced a new model to test approaches for addressing behavioral and physical health, as well as social needs, for people with Medicaid and ...

This article presents challenges and solutions regarding health care–focused large language models (LLMs) and summarizes key recommendations from major regulatory and governance bodies for LLM ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has named 14 states plus the District of Columbia to participate in the Transforming Maternal Health Model. First announced in December 2023, the ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

A survey of all Arizona physicians found that accountable care organization, clinically integrated network, or integrated delivery network participation was associated with higher use of health ...