Operational Efficiency & Revenue Cycle
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AI Summary — Last 30 Days
Over the past 30 days, the operational landscape for value-based care (VBC) has seen significant structural shifts, with over 150 organizations applying for CMS’s new 10-year ACCESS payment model—a signal of strong market appetite for long-term ACO risk contracts and payment certainty Clamoring for ACCESS. At the same time, CMS and CMMI have accelerated deployment of operational and technology-centric models, including broader adoption of AI “Care Execution Agents,” which are now serving roughly 1 million value-based care patients in concert with leading ACOs.
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