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ACO strategy is increasingly moving beyond traditional physician-led MSSP participation toward home-based primary care, post-acute integration, and condition- or episode-specific risk models: CMS’s LEAD model is being positioned as a REACH successor with explicit roles for home health and in-home primary care providers, while TEAM creates another pathway for post-acute providers to prove value in surgical episodes. At the same time, the CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule is keeping MSSP policy pressure high, with ACO stakeholders focused on benchmarking, participation requirements, and operational readiness as CMS under the Trump administration continues to use ACO models as a core lever for Medicare cost control and care transformation. Medicaid ACOs are also being framed as population-health infrastructure for maternal health equity, underscoring a broader shift in which successful ACOs will need stronger community-based care coordination, data capabilities, and cross-continuum partnerships rather than narrow primary-care attribution alone (LEAD and home health role; CY 2027 MSSP summary).
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