Bundled Payments
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CMS’s bundled-payment agenda is moving into a more mandatory, data-intensive phase, with stakeholders positioning around CJR-X and TEAM as the Trump administration’s CMS weighs implementation details for joint replacement and hospital episode models. Hospitals and VBC coalitions are pressing CMS to temper downside risk, fix underpayment and benchmarking issues, and align quality measures, while ACO-oriented groups are focused on how mandatory episodes will interact with population-based accountability and referral management. The broader strategic signal is that episode-based payment is expanding beyond legacy procedural bundles toward a platform for specialty and potentially chronic-condition risk, making data infrastructure, episode analytics, and post-acute network control central capabilities for health systems and ACOs (Premier comments on FY 2027 IPPS, TEAM, and CJR-X; [Health Affairs on chronic-condition episodes](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMizgFBVV95cUxQRVpGWW5UaXd2MEVfSEVjcndXV0JDc0lzbmZNTU1YbkhkMldsY1JUcTZjV09UejFubXY0cldrYUQxTWhlQXhnb2lyN1Y0LUFaYXppMWlUYlNDNTBzZzk5cHFuQmdle
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