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CMS’s push toward tech-enabled Medicare payment models is sharpening the VBC infrastructure race: CMMI’s ACCESS Model is being positioned around technology-enabled care, data integration, and access improvement, while provider organizations are investing in AI-assisted HCC coding, risk stratification, and embedded care-management workflows to make risk contracts operationally sustainable. At the same time, the Trump administration’s Medicare AI prior authorization experiment is drawing congressional Democratic pushback, underscoring a core tension for ACOs and risk-bearing providers: AI may reduce administrative friction and target utilization, but only if governance, transparency, and clinical accountability keep pace with payment-model automation. The strategic signal is that interoperability and AI are moving from back-office IT priorities to prerequisites for success in Medicare risk, with models like ACCESS and fights over AI prior authorization likely to shape how payers and providers deploy automation in VBC.
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