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Medicaid is becoming the central flashpoint for health equity-oriented VBC: new analysis warns that inconsistent work hours could put roughly 10 million expansion-state adults at risk of coverage loss under work requirements, while Epic data show Medicaid losses shifting low-income patients toward cash-pay exposure—raising churn, uncompensated care, and attribution instability risks for ACOs and safety-net systems. At the same time, Medicaid ACO leaders are pointing to maternal health as a concrete use case for equity-driven population health, using care coordination, risk stratification, and community partnerships while still struggling with data gaps, fragmented benefits, and accountability limits (Milbank). For VBC stakeholders, the week’s signal is a widening tension between policy-driven Medicaid eligibility contraction and model-driven expectations to improve SDoH-sensitive outcomes across maternity, behavioral health, and chronic disease populations (Fierce Healthcare).
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