Care Coordination & Referrals
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Care coordination is moving from “program design” to operating-model execution: Prisma Health’s CIN shows the direction of travel with embedded primary-care managers, hospital transitions nurses, Medicaid ED navigators, and interdisciplinary Care Team Pods turning data into frontline referral and follow-up workflows (Prisma Health care strategy). At the same time, ACO and post-acute stakeholders are being pushed to hardwire referral reliability, care-transition functions, and data-sharing capacity ahead of models such as LEAD ACO, while prior authorization reform remains a live tension because payer-facing automation may not solve the provider workflow burden without stronger provider participation (prior authorization reform gap). The broader pattern for VBC leaders is clear: under the Trump administration’s CMS, health-tech and AI initiatives may accelerate infrastructure for referrals, authorizations, and population health, but the near-term differentiator will be whether organizations can translate those tools into accountable, cross-setting care teams that reduce avoidable ED use, failed transitions, and unmanaged specialty spend.
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