CMMI Payment Models
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CMMI’s payment-model portfolio is moving toward more explicit downside-risk architecture: the LEAD ACO model is being parsed as a successor-style design for advanced accountable care, while actuaries are focusing on stop-loss and risk corridors as core infrastructure for MSSP and LEAD participants that cannot absorb unbounded medical-cost volatility (Wakely on stop-loss in ACO contracts). At the same time, episode-based models remain politically and operationally active, with stakeholders pressing CMS on implementation details for CJR-X and TEAM—especially data, benchmarking, quality measurement, and hospital financial exposure—signaling that bundled payments are being refined rather than abandoned (Premier comments on IPPS, TEAM, and CJR-X). A parallel fight over the Medicare AI prior authorization pilot shows a growing tension under the Trump administration’s CMS between technology-enabled utilization management and provider/patient concerns about access, which could shape how future CMMI models use AI, prior authorization, and administrative automation.
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