CMS approved more than 150 organizations on April 13 for the ACCESS Model, a 10-year outcome-aligned chronic care payment program launching July 5. Combined with the bipartisan Chronic Care Management Improvement Act introduced April 14 (which would eliminate beneficiary coinsurance on CCM) and the new RPM CPT codes that took effect January 1, the economics of chronic care in Original Medicare.

Healthcare's AI investment is accelerating, but the dollars are concentrated in administrative and documentation use cases that will commoditize within eighteen months. The AI deployments producing real clinical and financial returns are the ones that shorten time-to-intervention rather than time-to-bill, including bedside predictive monitoring, continuous remote monitoring, and clinical workflow

Two federal actions in the past week, the launch of CMS's ACCESS Model with 150+ accepted participants and the introduction of the bipartisan Chronic Care Management Improvement Act of 2026, just rewrote the economics of chronic care. ACCESS pays providers for outcomes over a ten-year horizon. The new bill would eliminate the 20 percent patient cost-share that has suppressed CCM enrollment for a d