The Value Signal — October 07, 2026

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Executive Summary

Value-based care is moving toward the home and toward fewer, sharper outcome measures, just as affordability shocks and cost-integrity scrutiny raise the bar for proving results.

On Care Delivery and Accountability, Milbank Memorial Fund reports that Medicaid ACOs are advancing maternal health quality and links full certified nurse-midwife practice authority to stronger workforce supply and better maternal outcomes. The Home-Based Shift is gaining operational proof: Home Health Care News reports that Team Select scaled its AI platform to full census and saw a 15% drop in hospitalizations, while AJMC finds PCOC panelists divided on how to bring cancer care home by 2030. On Quality Measurement, NCQA argues that fee-for-service undervalues integrated behavioral health and team-based primary care, and it records health plan leaders and CEO Vivek Garg calling for a simpler, outcomes-focused measurement regime that must "prove it."

Affordability and Integrity pressures are converging on the same balance sheets. KFF reports that ACA Marketplace enrollment is falling in 2026 after enhanced premium tax credits expired and eligibility rules tightened, and it documents how states are deploying program integrity tools in Medicaid home care. HFMA notes that the FTC has opened a new front in hospital price transparency enforcement as HHS updates rules for health plans. Healthcare Brew highlights a Blue Cross report concluding that AI increases healthcare costs, a direct challenge to the efficiency case vendors are making to risk-bearing organizations.