MedCity News July 9, 2025
For hospitals and health systems, the challenge is steep, but so is the opportunity. TEAM offers a framework to deliver more coordinated, cost-effective, and patient-focused care. Those who prepare now will be far better positioned to thrive in a value-based future.
In a healthcare system already stretched thin by rising costs, staff burnout, and fragmented post-acute care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is upping the ante.
Beginning January 1, 2026, the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) will become mandatory for hospitals in 797 core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) across the U.S.
This isn’t another pilot or voluntary alternative payment model. It’s the latest in a series of CMS efforts to tie reimbursement to value. This time hospitals...
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