Dear John,

Today, we are pleased to share our most-read Forefront articles as part of our Health Affairs in 2023 series.

Health Affairs and Health Affairs Forefront are wide-ranging publications that cover many areas of health policy.

This year, we were particularly pleased that our most-read Forefront article, by Art Kellermann, dealt with an important topic that we have addressed perhaps less than others: the military health system.

The other articles on the top-ten list delve into many different areas, such as Long COVID, accountable care and value-based payment, hospital finances, risk adjustment, social determinants, and more.

We invite readers to read the pieces listed below, to peruse the entire Health Affairs Forefront archive, and to follow the new health policy articles each day on Forefront.

Readers can also review our lists of the most-read Health Affairs journal articles of 2023 and our Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil’s favorite journal articles of the year.

Watch for lists of our most popular podcasts (tomorrow); best event moments (January 9), and the best of Health Affairs Scholar (January 10).

1. Arthur L. Kellermann, We Must Rebuild America’s Military Health System (March 14)

2. Purva Rawal, Douglas Jacobs, Elizabeth Fowler, and Meena Seshamani, Building On CMS's Accountable Care Vision To Improve Care For Medicare Beneficiaries (July 31)

3. Christopher M. Whaley, Sebahattin Demirkan, and Ge Bai, What’s Behind Losses At Large Nonprofit Health Systems? (March 24)

4. David Putrino, Long COVID: Incidence, Impacts, And Implications (March 29)

5. Michael J. Alkire and Soumi Saha, Health Care Policy In 2023: Five Areas To Watch (February 21)

6. Paul A. Branstad and Claude R. Maechling, Explaining Corporate America’s Aggressive Investment In Primary Care (April 5)

7. Meena Seshamani and Douglas Jacobs, Hospital Price Transparency: Progress And Commitment To Achieving Its Potential (February 14)

8. Aneesh Chopra, Adam Boehler, and Gary Bacher, Risk Adjustment: It’s Time For Reform (January 9)

9. Bobby Milstein, Becky Payne, Christopher Kelleher, Jack Homer, Tyler Norris, Monte Roulier, and Somava Saha, Organizing Around Vital Conditions Moves the Social Determinants Agenda into Wider Action (February 2)

10. Ezekiel Emanuel, Nine Health Care Megatrends, Part 1: System And Payment Reform (May 9)

We’re pleased to announce the continuation of our Forefront Series “Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector.”

This series features analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider prices in the private-sector markets and their contribution to overall spending therein.

Begun in early 2023, the series has already featured over two dozen articles by various authors discussing price transparency data, abusive billing practices, state efforts to address high commercial prices, federal antitrust guidance, public-to-private cost-shifting, and many related topics.

Thanks to ongoing support from Arnold Ventures, we are able to reissue our call for submissions for this series. We will accept submissions on a rolling basis throughout 2024.

Check out all of our currently open Call for Submissions, including our series on Medicare and Medicaid Integration as well as Accountable Care for Population Health, on our Request for Abstracts page.

Questions, including those about the suitability of a particular topic, can be sent to [email protected]. 

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