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CMS payment-model activity is re-centering VBC strategy around government-led models as Medicare Advantage retrenches: the new LEAD model is being framed as a successor to REACH with explicit roles for home health and in-home primary care, while stakeholders are preparing for mandatory bundled-payment expansion through CJR-X and broader accountability for cost, quality, and outcomes. At the same time, the $542M Villages Health settlement over alleged MA diagnosis-code inflation underscores a sharpening compliance and coding-risk backdrop for risk-based entities, making documentation integrity and governance as strategically important as care-model innovation. For ACOs, home-based providers, and hospitals, the opportunity is to build longitudinal, tech-enabled population-health infrastructure that can operate across CMS models—but with rising administrative burden and enforcement exposure as payment models scale (LEAD and in-home primary care; Villages Health settlement).
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