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The Value Signal — September 22, 2026
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Executive Summary
CMMI’s chronic-care expansion and Medicaid pricing pressure point to a VBC market moving from pilot economics to operating-model discipline.
CMMI and VBC scale. CMS is expanding the ACCESS Model with additional chronic care tracks for Medicare providers, reinforcing a 10-year push to pair value-based payment with digital chronic disease management, HFMA reports. Medicare value-based care is also moving beyond experimentation, with 511 Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs serving about 12.6 million traditional Medicare beneficiaries in 2026 and generating roughly $2.5 billion in net Medicare savings, HFMA reports.
Medicaid and drug-pricing stress. Medicaid managed care faces rate-setting uncertainty under the 2025 reconciliation law, with potential MCO exits creating access and continuity risks for states, according to KFF. The GENEROUS Model would apply Most Favored Nation pricing concepts to Medicaid, Pharmaceuticalcommerce reports, while comparator selection remains a central lever in ex-US health technology assessment and international drug-pricing benchmarks, Avalere Health reports.
In this edition
- CMMICMS’s ACCESS Model expansion adds chronic care tracks for Medicare providers — HFMA
- CJRCJR-X and the Shrinking, Sicker Inpatient Joint Replacement Population — RAC Monitor
- Value-based CareFrom fragmented outreach to coordinated action: building a value-based care operating model — HFMA
- MedicaidFAQ: How the GENEROUS Model Applies MFN Pricing to Medicaid — Pharmaceuticalcommerce
- MedicaidTaylor et al. v. Kennedy, Jr. et al — ACP
- MedicaidImplementation of 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Managed Care Rate Setting Uncertainty & Potential Plan Exits — KFF