For surgery-center administrators and MSK service-line leaders: what TEAM actually demands, what personalization actually returns, and where episodes are actually won.
Coverage for knee and hip replacement turns on documented, unsuccessful conservative care. The value-based MSK programs starting in 2027 manufacture exactly that record as a byproduct — and most centres are not set up to receive it. Plus the timing rule most people get backwards.
Read →Six hundred pages into the same outpatient rule, Medicare gave algorithm-driven care a name — SaMS — made 2027 a bridge year, and asked the industry how to value it. The methodology is still a blank page. Comments close Aug 31.
Read →OREF and RegenMed launched MOTIV. What it validates — and the operator move it leaves open.
Read →Two proposed rules, one week apart, opposite directions. The asymmetry is structural — and the comment windows close Aug 31 and Sep 14.
Read →Dalio’s four distress levers are all firing in musculoskeletal care at once — and the CY2027 rules show exactly where the money goes. Which side of the reorganization are you on?
Read →The Ambulatory Specialty Model is finalized, mandatory, and starts January 1, 2027 — and the low-back cohort pulls ortho, spine, neuro, and pain into peer scoring. The math, per NPI.
Read →The device was never the product — the procedure is. Why MedTech's commercial model is shifting to pay-per-case, and what the buy-side of that shift looks like for a center.
Read →Under two-sided risk a revision stops being someone else's claim and becomes spend you eat. Better fit is the value lever — and the math is short.
Read →TEAM prices SNF days, home health, and readmissions inside your episode. The least-instrumented setting in healthcare is now the biggest swing item on your score.
Read →The manufacturer locators dead-end patients searching for a personalized surgeon. That unmet, pre-qualified demand is an inbound funnel for the center that shows up.
Read →The episode model is mandatory, the 30-day window is scored, and the peer curve decides who keeps money. The administrator's concrete checklist.
Read →Under two-sided risk, better fit stops being a cost and becomes return the facility keeps. The arithmetic, stated plainly.
Read →Discharge isn't the end of the episode — it's the midpoint. Why the home is the highest-leverage, least-instrumented part of the score.
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