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Digital health is being repositioned from a point-solution market toward accountable, contract-ready care delivery infrastructure: NCQA’s new Digital Health Engagement Accreditation and DiMe’s virtual-first care initiative both target payer concerns around engagement, outcomes measurement, data access, and implementation risk. At the same time, specialty virtual care models are moving deeper into VBC use cases—Oshi Health’s multidisciplinary GI model and virtual integrated MSK evidence point to lower-cost, coordinated alternatives for ACOs and MA plans managing high-prevalence chronic conditions. The main policy tension remains telehealth permanence and billing stability, with CMS telehealth billing updates for RHCs and ATA pressure on Congress underscoring that virtual care’s role in population health strategy still depends on durable Medicare payment rules.
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