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CMS is positioning primary care as a central VBC lever, with the 2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposing a two-year strategy to address Medicare’s longstanding undervaluation of primary care while the ACCESS Model expands to additional chronic conditions and brings in technology partners such as Oura and Counsel Health to test AI- and wearable-enabled chronic care at scale. The strategic direction is toward higher prospective investment, chronic-condition management, and cross-payer alignment, but the tension for ACOs and health systems is whether new payments and digital infrastructure will reduce administrative burden and improve outcomes—or simply add another layer of model complexity and measurement requirements. See HFMA on the 2027 Medicare primary care payment changes and Fierce Healthcare on the ACCESS Model expansion.
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