Quality Metrics & Performance
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CMS’s CY 2027 physician payment, MSSP, and quality agenda is drawing coordinated pushback from VBC stakeholders seeking a tighter balance between accountability and operational feasibility: Premier and the Health Care Transformation Task Force are pressing CMS to strengthen ACO participation, primary care investment, interoperability, and burden reduction while preserving outcome-based performance expectations (Premier comments; HCTTF comments). At the same time, CMS’s tougher 2027 Medicare Advantage Star Ratings cutpoints signal a broader tightening of quality benchmarks that could pressure MA margins, network strategy, and payer-provider contracting, while Medicaid ACO evidence on maternal health underscores that quality improvement increasingly depends on care coordination, community partnerships, and equity-focused population health infrastructure rather than measure compliance alone.
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