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Hospitals are escalating lobbying against potential Trump CMS rules that could deepen reimbursement pressure, with reported losses rising from CBO’s $340B reconciliation estimate to as much as $681B through 2034 if CMS hospital-spending reductions move forward—an immediate margin and network-stability risk for ACOs, MA plans, and health systems dependent on hospital participation in VBC contracts (Wakely). At the same time, rural transformation planning is pushing community paramedicine as a care-delivery workaround for access gaps, while payer-owned medicine remains under scrutiny for reshaping referral flows, network leverage, and physician alignment economics in ways that could either accelerate or distort value-based care (Healthcare Innovation).
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