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CMS’s proposed 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule is intensifying momentum toward accountable care: the agency is proposing physician-payment reforms that would phase out MIPS, strengthen primary care payment, and expand ACO participation, while provider groups including ACP, NAACOS, and HCTTF are backing bipartisan Patients First Act efforts to modernize Medicare physician payment and support accountable care infrastructure (Fierce Healthcare). At the same time, network strategy is becoming more central to VBC economics

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