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Medicaid work/community-engagement requirements are becoming the dominant health equity and SDoH pressure point for VBC stakeholders, with new analysis warning that SSDI applicants and beneficiaries waiting for Medicare could lose Medicaid coverage despite high disability-related need—creating churn, uncompensated care risk, and harder attribution/care management for ACOs and safety-net systems (KFF). At the same time, plans and providers are repositioning around vulnerable-population payment models: MA Special Needs Plans are drawing intensified growth attention, while safety-net networks are consolidating amid federal focus on value-based care, signaling a shift toward scale, data infrastructure, and risk-bearing capacity for high-need Medicaid/Medicare populations. State readiness for work reporting and related eligibility operations is now a near-term execution risk, making coverage continuity, documentation support, and closed-loop referral capacity central to population health performance under Medicaid and dual-eligible VBC models (SHVS roadmap).
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