The Infrastructure Underneath Your ACO Performance Is About to Be Tested at a Scale It Was Never Designed For
ACO REACH sunsets December 31, 2026. The CMS LEAD Model launches January 1, 2027—with a 10-year performance period.This is not a continuation. It’s a reset.Most ACOs are not unprepared because of clinical quality or savings performance. They are unprepared because their data infrastructure, workflows, and financial models were built for REACH-not LEAD.Under a 10-year model, these gaps compound into missed savings, rising administrative costs, and increased downside risk exposure.
What You'll Learn
- Why LEAD is structurally different from ACO REACH — and what that means for the manual workarounds that kept your REACH program solvent
- Where the specific infrastructure gaps are across data interoperability, attribution logic, and real-time care gap visibility that LEAD's 10-year structure will expose
- How operating across six or more EHR systems translates into quantifiable savings erosion under LEAD's reformulated benchmarking methodology
- What the shift from Web Interface to 100% eCQM mandate means for your quality reporting infrastructure today
- How to use the COO readiness framework in this paper to identify blind spots before you are bearing downside risk
- Which ACO archetypes are positioned to compete for the $75 PBPM margin LEAD creates — and which are already losing it to administrative overhead
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