Population Health Management
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Population health management is shifting from broad care-management rhetoric to operating-model discipline: risk-bearing ACOs are investing in technology enablement, coordinated outreach, analytics, and workflow integration to manage attributed lives more systematically as MSSP scale and savings continue to grow. Under the Trump administration’s CMS, CMMI’s ACCESS Model is also becoming a more visible test bed for tech-enabled chronic care, with expansion into new conditions and participation by wearables/AI players such as Oura and Counsel Health—raising the strategic question of whether digital monitoring can reliably translate into lower total cost of care and better longitudinal management at scale. For ACOs, payers, and health systems, the near-term imperative is aligning specialty, home-based, kidney, and chronic-care interventions into contractable population health infrastructure rather than disconnected point solutions, a tension reflected in new field guidance on ACO technology enablement and VBC operating models ([Duke-Margolis](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxPODlCZ0ZNUUQ1QzVyZ2xRMFVRZkVsS3c1UDZzTFhJVVZxS1FPaDBfRkowRHo3SGlTVi02WkFNcWZ5U29qNTJqc0dPNmw0VTZGVElKZlpYQ3FGcXh1djJqWUwxcFh
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