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CMS is signaling a broader Trump administration push toward value-based Medicare models that combine expanded ACO access with more prescriptive episode-based accountability: CMMI’s LEAD model is aimed at drawing more providers—especially those serving underserved and rural populations—into accountable care, while the proposed CJR-X would revive and nationally expand mandatory joint replacement bundles through the FY2027 IPPS rule. At the same time, the voluntary ACCESS model ties chronic disease payment to measurable outcomes and technology partnerships, suggesting CMMI under Abe Sutton is positioning VBC around prevention, scalable tech enablement, and taxpayer savings rather than purely voluntary MSSP growth. For ACOs, health systems, MA-aligned physician groups, and conveners, the strategic tension is clear: CMS is widening on-ramps into population-based accountability while also increasing mandatory specialty-model exposure, requiring stronger actuarial, care-management, and specialist-alignment capabilities across Medicare FFS and Medicare Advantage-adjacent VBC portfolios. LEAD model analysis
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