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CMS’s Medicare value-based care agenda is converging on mandatory and outcomes-based models: health systems are being pushed to prepare for the mandatory TEAM episode-payment model, while specialty participants such as Story Health are positioning around the CMS ACCESS model’s outcomes-based framework (TEAM analysis). At the same time, Medicare Advantage growth, prior authorization reform, and underused care-coordination billing codes are intensifying the operational tension for ACOs, MA plans, and providers: success increasingly depends on tighter longitudinal care management, cleaner documentation, and scalable AI-enabled utilization workflows rather than retrospective
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