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Most healthcare decisions that shape your life never make headlines. The Policy Stack, hosted by Lisa Bari, takes you inside the rooms where those decisions are made, introducing you to the leaders, policymakers, and innovators shaping how American healthcare works.
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Dr. Will Gordon on CMS ACCESS: What Happens When Medicare Pays for Outcomes (opens the original)
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The CMS Innovation Center has run payment experiments for 15 years. Most paid providers for activity: enrolling patients, filing reports, hitting process measures. At the end of 2025, CMS launched a model that changes the unit of payment itself. It’s called CMS ACCESS, and it pays for outcomes. Did blood pressure come down? Did HbA1C come down? Did depression scores improve? The first cohort went live weeks ago. Underneath that idea is a much harder one. To pay for outcomes, you have to measure
Verlon Johnson on the Nearly $1 Trillion Question: Can Medicaid Hold? | The Policy Stack (opens the original)
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Medicaid covers more than 70 million people, and last year it went through the largest change to its financing in its history. The 2025 reconciliation law cut an estimated $911 billion in federal Medicaid spending over ten years, added work requirements, shortened eligibility checks to every six months, and limited how states can raise money through provider taxes. For most of last year those were words on a page. Now the deadlines are real, and many of the biggest changes begin January 1, 2027.
79% of Hospital AI Comes from EHR Vendors. Here's Why That's a Problem | The Policy Stack (opens the original)
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79% of hospitals are running AI tools built by their EHR vendor. Not because those tools are necessarily the best, but because the structural advantages of staying in suite make it the easier choice every single time. In this episode of The Policy Stack, taken from Innovaccer's Context 2026 Healthcare Autonomy conference, Lisa Bari, Head of Policy and Partnerships at Innovaccer, and Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, Professor at UCSF, joined Ruth Reader of Second Opinion for one of the most substantive
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