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The VBC market is shifting from broad participation to more sophisticated risk intermediation and enablement: MSSP ACO conveners are increasingly shaping provider participation, infrastructure, and economics behind the scenes, while firms are launching tools to model downside exposure under newer CMS ACO constructs such as LEAD, signaling that risk selection, attribution strategy, and capital support are becoming core competitive advantages (Health Affairs on ACO conveners). At the delivery-system level, rural hospitals, home health providers, specialty groups, and advanced primary care platforms are moving toward clinically integrated networks, payer-selective MA contracting, AI-supported HCC documentation, and specialty VBC models—reflecting a broader pivot from contract access to margin discipline, coding accuracy, and longitudinal cost management. Medicare Advantage remains a central pressure point as enrollment reaches 55% of eligible beneficiaries in 2026, intensifying tensions between MA plan economics,
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