Healthcare Workforce & Staffing

Synthesis:

In the past week, the healthcare workforce and staffing landscape has been shaped by ongoing structural changes at CMS and major policy shifts, including the operational challenges posed by a diminished federal workforce as CMS implements major initiatives such as Medicaid work requirements. Concurrently, the new mandatory TEAM bundled payment model is accelerating the movement toward downside risk for providers, raising concerns for ACOs and health systems around risk-bearing capacity and staffing adequacy in value-based arrangements (CMS tackles big policy changes with diminished workforce; TEAM Bundled Payments: Preparing for Downside Risk).