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CMS’s episode-based payment agenda is moving from design to operational readiness: hospitals are preparing for the mandatory Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), while vendors are positioning analytics and “learning health system” infrastructure as necessary to manage episode attribution, post-acute spend, complications, and discharge variation under downside risk (Databricks on TEAM readiness). At the same time, provider coalitions are pressing CMS through the FY 2027 IPPS/LTCH PPS rulemaking process to better align hospital payment policy with value-based care incentives, signaling

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