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CMS is becoming the central VBC engine as Medicare Advantage plans retrench, with providers increasingly looking to CMMI and Medicare payment policy—not MA growth—as the next source of accountability-based revenue and care redesign momentum. At the same time, the Trump administration’s CMS is pushing more mandatory or quasi-mandatory model infrastructure, including CJR-X readiness and FHIR-enabled electronic prior authorization, while hospitals are warning that existing mandatory VBP programs already impose roughly $3 billion in annual administrative costs—raising the stakes for model design, data automation, and provider burden. For ACOs, hospitals, home health operators, and MA plans, the week’s pattern is clear: CMS-led VBC expansion is accelerating just as MA economics, Stars litigation, and payer pullbacks are making private-plan-led value strategies less predictable (CMS as VBC engine; CJR-X readiness).
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