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The ACO Pulse Brief

Where Medicare's value-based care reality meets your operating week. From the team at ACO Health Solutions.

A free bi-weekly read for MSSP ACO executives and quality leaders. Every issue cuts the week's CMS models, methodology changes, quality-reporting shifts, and data-security developments down to what actually matters for your ACO. Browse the archive below.

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Issue #2 Week of June 15, 2026

A new Medicare model goes live, and the part that matters is your benchmark

The ACCESS Model launches July 5 and folds into MSSP benchmarks in 2028, the CY2027 PFS proposed rule arrives with the ACPT problem still unresolved, and the biggest HIPAA Security Rule rewrite in over a decade is past its own deadline at OCR.

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Issue #1 Week of June 1, 2026

The work for the first LEAD cohort starts now

The first LEAD cohort is being selected now, roughly $100M in MAHA ELEVATE chronic-disease funding has a 2027 window still open, CY2026 PFS changes are live, ONC's HTI-5 reset awaits a final rule, and the RXNT vendor breach put congressional prescription data on the open market.

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