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AI Summary — Last 7 Days
CMS’s Medicare policy signal this week is increasingly two-track: tighter scrutiny of Medicare Advantage coding/payment—reinforced by OIG findings that unsupported acute stroke diagnoses may have driven roughly $462M in MA overpayments—and continued expansion/refinement of value-based payment models, including ACO designs such as LEAD and ACCESS and finalized changes to the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model. For VBC stakeholders, the pattern is a push to rebalance incentives away from MA risk-score arbitrage and toward accountable care performance, but tensions remain around model complexity, third-party ACO conveners, prior authorization tools like WISeR, and whether new CMMI designs can improve access and savings without creating new gaming opportunities (MA payment scrutiny; [LEAD model deep dive](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiggFBVV95cUxQMjMwak1tRDRZS2lVam5pcXNYd2IxVS1ROWpGYXdGS2RYQUZwNUNYSExIZ092Z092bFMyV0dfNld0QV9rbG5GZnNkbmxXWENPQVZwUWxKbkF6Z09pWHg0NHdVdkJHUmpuS2luVUZNREZHdGdMNGxsTmk1
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