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Primary care VBC activity this week centered on CMS’s Medicare ACCESS model, where stakeholders are weighing the promise of hybrid payments and advanced primary care infrastructure against unresolved tensions around attribution, risk adjustment, benchmarks, and whether smaller or safety-net practices can participate without taking on unsustainable downside exposure (Health Affairs). In parallel, Medicaid and purchaser-led efforts are moving toward primary-care-specific risk adjustment and multi-payer alignment—MassHealth’s model design and California public purchasers’ collaboration signal that states and large buyers are trying to make primary care payment more sensitive to medical, behavioral, and social complexity rather than relying on legacy total-cost formulas ([
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