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Over the past week, the Trump administration’s CMS finalized a significant 2.48% average payment increase for Medicare Advantage (MA) in the 2027 rate notice, reversing lower proposed rates and sending health insurer stocks higher—intensifying scrutiny of the ongoing alignment (or lack thereof) between federal payment policy and value-based care transformation. Avalere and Wakely signal deepening complexity as CMS updates to Part D risk adjustment and launches programs like BALANCE—designed to expand access to GLP-1 therapies for obesity—raise new selection risk and care management challenges for payers and ACOs. Meanwhile, provider- and payer-facing dialogue continues about structural misalignments stalling value-based care adoption, even as digital therapies and novel pilots (such as the CMS CBD program) indicate ongoing innovation in care delivery and population health management.

Key sources: Wakely Week in Washington, Avalere: 2027 Part D Risk Adjustment Changes

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