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Payer strategy signals this week centered on tighter Medicare Advantage economics and operational risk: CMS’ 2027 MA final rule under the Trump administration preserves some consumer protections while rolling back others, as plans also face payment, Star Ratings, network adequacy, and forced-disenrollment scrutiny that will affect bid strategy, provider contracting, and beneficiary retention (KFF analysis). Medicaid managed care is also entering a more restrictive coverage environment, with Nebraska moving early on work requirements that could remove 20,000–40,000 beneficiaries from coverage—raising churn, attribution, and care-continuity risks for MCOs, ACOs, and safety-net systems. At the same time, evidence that the Oncology Care Model reduced chemotherapy use and Medicare spending in poor-prognosis cancers reinforces CMS’ continued opportunity to steer specialty value-based models toward utilization discipline and goal-concordant care (AJMC
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