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CMS’s new LEAD model is reinforcing a Trump administration CMMI direction toward advanced, REACH-like accountable care arrangements that expand the role of home-based providers, creating new partnership opportunities—and referral, attribution, and risk-management questions—for ACOs and home health agencies McKnight’s Home Care. At the same time, ACO stakeholders are pushing back through CY 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule comments, with NAACOS focused on payment adequacy, benchmarking, and quality-measure policy that could materially affect MSSP and model economics NAACOS. Medicaid ACO work is also broadening the VBC lens beyond total cost of care, with Milbank’s maternal health analysis underscoring how ACO leaders, clinicians, and care coordinators are using population health infrastructure to address quality gaps while still facing data, financing, and cross-sector coordination barriers.
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