CMMI Innovation Models
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CMMI’s near-term portfolio is shifting from voluntary accountable care toward a more explicitly risk-bearing, mandatory model environment: ACO REACH is demonstrating stronger Medicare savings—$988 million in 2024—but is still set to sunset, forcing high-performing participants to reposition for MSSP, LEAD, or other successor pathways (Healthcare Dive). At the same time, hospitals and specialists are preparing for mandatory episode-based risk through TEAM and CJR-X, making governance, gainsharing, data infrastructure, and care redesign capabilities more urgent strategic assets rather than optional VBC investments (Hall Render). The central tension for ACOs and health systems is timing: CMS is showing evidence that advanced models can generate savings, but participants must make binding operational choices before final methodologies and successor-model economics are fully visible.
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