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CMS’s mandatory TEAM episode-payment model is moving from planning to operational urgency for hospitals, forcing health systems to build bundled-payment capabilities around surgical episodes, post-acute management, discharge planning, and avoidable readmissions—an immediate total-cost-of-care test under the Trump administration’s CMS leadership. At the same time, VBC infrastructure investment is shifting toward provider-facing analytics and care-at-home interventions, with Cedar Gate positioning its platform for value-based growth and home-based hospitalization prevention reinforcing the central tension for ACOs and payers: reduce utilization without losing visibility into risk, cost, and attribution. See: [TEAM model opportunity for health systems](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMivAFBVV95cUxNejRzZWFUUVJfVnZEUDZWNjhoUExnLUZBLXBjaS04SG9fYWRqM2FEemp4SV9lckJyTHhoZXo2MmJjUks5NVdMd0Jibl9LZmNOX0N4eVhiMUd2YnRZb1ZmeEdaMjM4UmctdlZiWDZwci1kQUVEYXN3S242OTlqX0oyeWFzWmxLdFR6UkdybmpBVnBHRXNWVE5nTC1qeUlmN0hkQ1A3SVFpNGFpM1dpazM1NVJ
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