Total Cost of Care
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Mandatory episode-based payment is re-emerging as the clearest near-term total-cost-of-care lever under the Trump administrationâs CMS, with health systems being pushed to operationalize TEAM and prepare for CJR-X-style bundled-payment risk rather than treating VBC as optional (TEAM analysis). At the same time, the market is shifting from policy consensus to execution pressure: analytics vendors, post-acute partners, renal-care operators, and VBC platforms are positioning around avoidable admissions, discharge management, and specialty-cost control, while rural hospitals are seeking legislative protection via an extension
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