Total Cost of Care
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CMS is pushing specialty value-based care deeper into mandatory territory under the Trump administration, with the proposed expansion of joint-replacement bundling through CJR-X/TEAM signaling a renewed focus on episode-based total cost of care, site-of-care optimization, and hospital-ASC-physician alignment rather than purely voluntary participation. Health systems and specialty groups are positioning around MSK, oncology, and other high-cost service lines where outcomes, utilization management, and longitudinal analytics can create measurable savingsâespecially as evidence from the Oncology Care Model points to lower Medicare spending in poor-prognosis cancers and reduced chemotherapy intensity. The strategic tension for ACOs and providers is that specialty bundles can complement population-based accountability, but they also create attribution, gainsharing, and operational complexity that will require tighter payer-provider partnerships and better cost/outcomes infrastructure (CMS joint replacement expansion; [Oncology Care Model findings](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxNZkwwcFgyd1FmSmFtemsyX3MwRmsxX1pXY0tQRDc2QThTUHNHamdwSUdTX05hT3g2V3VKVm52QUJJajhKajdlTDlBOVBpQXhWOVVRUm1UY1gwV1dhVzZzcHJLS
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