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CMS’s digital health and VBC agenda is increasingly coalescing around model-enabled infrastructure: the ACCESS Model is drawing health tech interest but also exposing barriers around Medicaid market entry, workflow integration, and sustainable ROI, while Innovaccer’s positioning around AI governance, population health, and Kettering Health’s heart failure workflows shows vendors aligning directly to CMS model participation and risk-based care operations. At the same time, CMS is tightening the quality and data expectations around Medicaid and HCBS through proposed 2028 measures, signaling that states, plans, and provider networks will need stronger digital measurement, interoperability, and longitudinal care-management capabilities to succeed in future VBC contracts. The near-term tension for ACOs, Medicaid managed care plans, and health systems is that digital tools may be essential to compete in models like ACCESS, but adoption will be constrained by fragmented state Medicaid requirements, unclear procurement pathways, and the need to prove measurable outcomes rather than technology deployment alone (Health Affairs on ACCESS
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