The story is about a federal Medicare experiment called ACCESS that could reshape chronic care by paying for outcomes instead of office visits.
ACCESS is designed to support technology-enabled care for chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, chronic kidney disease, depression, anxiety, and chronic pain.
The model would let health systems, startups, and device makers use AI tools, wearables, apps, and remote monitoring to manage patients between visits.
Related federal efforts include an ARPA-H program called ADVOCATE, which is building an autonomous AI system for cardiovascular care, and an FDA pilot called TEMPO, which lets some AI-enabled health tools reach patients before full approval while real-world data is collected.
The big question in the article is whether doctors and patients will trust and adopt these AI-supported care models enough for them to succeed.
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