Healthcare Access

CMMI’s tech-enabled ACCESS Model is drawing intensified VBC attention as a potential catalyst for outcomes-based specialty care, with Innovaccer/Story Health and Kettering-linked heart failure workflows positioning the model around remote monitoring, longitudinal engagement, and performance accountability rather than episodic visits. The opportunity is creating a “health tech gold rush,” but the core tension for ACOs, specialists, and payers is whether ACCESS can translate digital enablement into measurable access and outcomes gains without adding vendor complexity, implementation burden, or inequitable participation barriers—especially for rural and independent practices facing thin margins and workforce constraints (Fierce Healthcare.