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The Trump administration’s CMS is signaling a more insurer-stable but scrutiny-heavy VBC environment: Medicare Advantage stakeholders received a “better-than-feared” 2027 payment update, while CMS’s 2027 MA/Part D Final Rule is reshaping Star Ratings incentives that will affect plan bonus economics, quality strategy, and provider contract terms (Wakely analysis). At the same time, DOJ activity around MA risk adjustment—including Elevance litigation and Aetna’s $117.7 million false-claims settlement—keeps RAF/HCC coding compliance a central strategic risk as plans and enablement vendors push more coding and care-gap tools into provider workflows. Safety-net and primary care VBC models are also gaining validation, with CMS ACCESS and platforms like Aledade Assist pointing toward a market where success increasingly depends on embedding population health, attribution, and quality data directly into clinical operations rather than treating VBC as a back-office finance function (Aledade Assist
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