{"id":336974,"date":"2026-03-09T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/336974\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:39:10","slug":"health-tech-company-says-it-will-join-medicares-new-chronic-care-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/336974\/","title":{"rendered":"Health tech company says it will join Medicare\u2019s new chronic care experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech\u2019s promise. He\u2019s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter<\/a>. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.<\/p>\n

Health tech company Cadence said Monday it will be among the first to participate in an experimental Medicare program that will pay providers set amounts to manage their patients\u2019 chronic conditions\u00a0 \u2014 and only pay them full price if their patients\u2019 conditions improve by certain margins. The model is meant as an alternative to paying for individual services.<\/p>\n

Announced in December by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, the program, called ACCESS<\/a>, generated excitement among policy experts and health tech executives who believed the initiative \u2014 designed to expand access to technology-supported care \u2014 might incentivize the adoption of new tools in service of better health outcomes at lower costs. The enthusiasm was tempered, however, in February when CMMI revealed<\/a> payment rates that came in lower than some expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ACCESS participants will be able to earn between $180 and $420 per patient the first year, depending on the exact condition treated. The full amount will be paid only if a provider\u2019s patients reach the desired outcomes. That\u2019s far less than a provider could earn for billing\u00a0 remote physiologic monitoring or chronic care management codes. For example, under a common remote patient monitoring, or RPM, model, a provider could earn about $100 per month. At the time, experts told STAT<\/a> that to participate in ACCESS, providers would need to make heavy use of artificial intelligence to reduce the amount of expensive human labor required to successfully manage a patient\u2019s care.<\/p>\n

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