Medicaid Value-Based Care
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Medicaid VBC is moving into a more constrained, risk-sensitive phase: CMS’s proposed provider-tax rule under OBBBA could reduce Medicaid payments by an estimated $220B over 10 years, while HHS has paused $1B in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota over fraud concerns—signals that states, MCOs, and providers should expect tighter financing, more federal scrutiny, and greater pressure to prove value in supplemental payment and managed care arrangements (HFMA; Healthcare Dive). At the same time, VBC expansion continues through targeted populations and benefits—Indiana’s planned GLP-1 coverage under the CMS BALANCE model and growing movement of dual-eligible nursing home care toward value-based models suggest states and payers are increasingly using risk-based designs to manage high-cost drugs, long-term care, and complex populations rather than retreating from payment reform altogether.
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