CMS ACCESS Model | Launching July 2026

Your ACCESS-Ready Remote Care Platform

ACCESS is a 10-year CMS payment model that will fundamentally reshape how Medicare pays for chronic disease management, with Validic serving as the infrastructure that supports ACCESS programs. Health systems that begin planning now will capture the full payment opportunity.

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Connected healthcare
10yr
CMS Payment Model
$0
Beneficiary Copays
Critical Deadlines

The Time to Act Is Now

With applications due in April 2026, organizations considering applying are already beginning their preparations.

Start Planning Today

Design workflows, staffing models, and data infrastructure. Organizations that wait may struggle to earn full payments once the model is live.

Now

Application Period

CMS ACCESS applications are due. Demonstrate your organization's readiness with a proven technology infrastructure already in place.

April 2026

Program Launch

ACCESS Model goes live. Early participants will already be capturing outcomes and building the foundation for sustained success.

July 2026
Strategic Imperative

Why Health Systems Must Act Now

ACCESS represents a fundamental shift to outcomes-driven reimbursement. Early movers gain a significant competitive advantage.

01

New, Sustainable Revenue

Hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, and depression/anxiety account for a large share of Medicare spending. ACCESS finally pays systems to manage these conditions continuously.

02

Public Performance Stakes

ACCESS performance will be made public by CMS. High-performing organizations will stand out to patients, payers, and partners while underperformance carries reputational risk.

03

CMS Long-Term Direction

CMS is clearly signaling a shift toward technology-enabled, outcomes-driven reimbursement. Early participants develop capabilities for future value-based contracts.

04

Operational Readiness

Success requires multidisciplinary care teams, continuous data streams, outcome tracking, and deeply integrated workflows. These take time to build right.

05

Measurable Outcomes

Hypertension, diabetes, and heart failure offer large, measurable improvement opportunities with clear evidence-based targets aligned with ACCESS payment structures.

06

Reduced Patient Barriers

Beneficiary copays for ACCESS-covered services are waived, reducing adoption barriers in Medicare populations and improving engagement rates.

ACCESS-Covered Conditions

Comprehensive Chronic Care Coverage

ACCESS provides payments for managing these chronic conditions with outcome-aligned reimbursement.

Hypertension

Diabetes

Heart Failure

Chronic MSK Pain

Depression/Anxiety

Cardio-Metabolic

Validic Platform

How Validic Powers ACCESS Success

ACCESS-ready infrastructure: a proven, EHR-integrated workflow powering device-to-dashboard connectivity for ACCESS programs.

1

Scale Without Scaling Burden

ACCESS payments depend on outcomes, and outcomes depend on continuous engagement. Validic provides native-like EHR integration, procures devices door-to-door, captures device and wearable data, automates data flows, and uses AI to summarize and triage insights—enabling clinicians to manage larger patient panels efficiently.

2

Outcome-Grade Data

To earn full ACCESS payments, systems must demonstrate measurable improvement. Validic centralizes blood pressure, glucose, weight, activity, and other device and wearable data in the EHR—enabling baseline-to-follow-up comparisons and population-level reporting.

3

Reduce Patient Friction

Many ACCESS-eligible patients lack reliable Wi-Fi or smartphones. Through integrations with cellular-connected device partners, Validic supports simple, low-friction onboarding for rural, digitally-limited, and high-risk Medicare beneficiaries.

4

Multi-Condition Platform

Validic supports monitoring for hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, obesity, activity, sleep, and behavioral health, allowing health systems to run multiple ACCESS tracks from one unified infrastructure.

5

Team-Based Care Enabled

ACCESS envisions team-based care models. Validic's EHR-native approach lets nurses, pharmacists, care managers, physicians, and behavioral health clinicians all work from the same shared data and workflows.

6

Deep EHR Integration

Validic offers deep EHR-native integration with Epic and Oracle Health, so clinicians work inside the EHR they already use while Validic acts as the "outside-the-hospital" data and workflow engine.

Trusted EHR Integrations

Epic
Oracle Health
Salesforce Health Cloud
NextGen

Are You ACCESS Ready?

Health systems, digital health, chronic care management, and managed care organizations that begin planning now will capture the full ACCESS payment opportunity, outperform peers in public reporting, and modernize their chronic-care infrastructure.

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