Forbes January 8, 2026
Medicare’s new hospital payment experiment, which it calls TEAM (Transforming Episode Accountability Mode), may have profound effects on patients, their families, and providers such as nursing homes and home health agencies. While the acronym signals the virtues of collaboration and shared goals, its outcomes are far less certain.
At its best, TEAM will encourage hospitals to improve the quality of the care their patients receive after being discharged. It could result in better coordinated care in what is now a dangerously fragmented system and enhance communication with patients and their families.
But it also risks further burdening already-stressed family caregivers. It also may increase financial pressures on providers such as home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities, which in turn...
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