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CMS under the Trump administration is signaling a broader VBC infrastructure push through CMMI, with the LEAD and ACCESS models positioning accountable care around specialty integration, safety-net participation, and data/AI-enabled care management—creating opportunities for ACOs, medical groups, and enablement vendors that can operationalize workflows inside EHRs and manage performance risk. At the same time, Medicare Advantage strategy is being reshaped by CMS’s better-than-feared payment update and 2027 Star Ratings rule changes, while DOJ scrutiny of MA risk adjustment keeps compliance and documentation risk central to payer-provider contracting. For VBC stakeholders, the near-term strategic divide is widening between organizations that can build model-specific operating infrastructure and those still treating CMMI participation as episodic pilots rather than enterprise population-health strategy ([MGMA on LEAD](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMif0FVX3lxTFBpLThhRk1weHdac0xaX241UjVMS3dlSkZHX25tQWM2X0ctN2hNUmlLSENheUZMQ3puWGtMaEpGY0RxbWpnZnZ2X3M1aXJzUjRCLW55bTk1U3ZyRDdweUNNRDdHOVQ0MXZibUZNWm5DSm1EeE9EZHEwWDBHNzB1ZHc?oc
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