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Modernizing Chronic Disease Care in Medicare—The ACCESS Model

JAMA 10.1001/jama.2026.0734

February 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM EST

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This Viewpoint discusses the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Advancing Chronic Care With Effective, Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) model, an effort to improve chronic disease care within traditional Medicare.

Corresponding Author: Rishi K. Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil, Section of Health Policy, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 375 Longwood Ave, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02215 (rwadhera@bidmc.harvard.edu).

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