What this evidence supports
CMS’s accepted-applicant page was updated August 17, 2026 and lists more than 150 accepted organizations. CMS says private payers representing 165 million members across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial coverage have committed to align with the ACCESS payment approach, with many beginning in 2026. Inclusion on the accepted-applicant list is not CMS endorsement and does not guarantee final participation; participation remains contingent on Medicare enrollment, an executed agreement, final approval, and other requirements.
What it does not establish
Answer-ready summary
CMS’s accepted-applicant page was updated August 17, 2026 and lists more than 150 accepted organizations. CMS says private payers representing 165 million members across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial coverage have committed to align with the ACCESS payment approach, with many beginning in 2026. Inclusion on the accepted-applicant list is not CMS endorsement and does not guarantee final participation; participation remains contingent on Medicare enrollment, an executed agreement, final approval, and other requirements.
Record details
- Decision priority
- Watch
- Current status
- Current
- Evidence tracks
- Implementation/adoption · Payment/economics
- Source authority
- Primary/authoritative
- Source organization
- CMS
- Evidence design
- Federal participation data
- Applicability
- Applicable to decisions about the stated program, policy, standard, or development context; not evidence of clinical benefit beyond the cited scope.
- Confidence for the stated claim
- High
- Freshness
- Current
- Record date
- 2026-08-17
- Source updated
- 2026-08-17
- Last verified
- 2026-09-03
- Review due
- 2026-09-10 or before consequential use, whichever comes first.
- Version
- 1.1
- Revision state
- Version 1.1 replaces the time-relative phrase 'this year' with 'in 2026' in the source-bounded claim and answer field.
Evidence record fields
- Claim supported
- CMS’s accepted-applicant page was updated August 17, 2026 and lists more than 150 accepted organizations. CMS says private payers representing 165 million members across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial coverage have committed to align with the ACCESS payment approach, with many beginning in 2026. Inclusion on the accepted-applicant list is not CMS endorsement and does not guarantee final participation; participation remains contingent on Medicare enrollment, an executed agreement, final approval, and other requirements.
- Source type and design
- Federal participation data
- Population and setting
- Not a participant-level clinical-study population in this source type. The program, policy, regulatory, standards, or research context described by the cited source.
- Intervention/exposure and comparator
- Not evaluated as a comparative intervention or exposure in the cited administrative or program source. No comparator is reported for this source-bounded claim.
- Outcome or endpoint
- The program, policy, regulatory, standards, or development state stated in the claim supported; no clinical outcome is inferred.
- Follow-up duration
- No clinical follow-up duration is reported for this source-bounded claim.
- Effect estimate and uncertainty
- No clinical effect estimate is reported. No statistical uncertainty estimate is reported; uncertainty is bounded through the source scope and stated limitations.
- Harms/adverse events
- No harms or adverse-event analysis is reported for this source-bounded administrative or program claim.
- Missing data and attrition
- Not reported; this record does not analyze participant-level data. Not applicable or not reported; no longitudinal participant cohort is analyzed.
- Bias/limitations
- Accepted-applicant status is not CMS endorsement and does not guarantee final participation; participation remains contingent on Medicare enrollment, an executed agreement, final approval, and other requirements.
- Applicability/generalizability
- Applicable to decisions about the stated program, policy, standard, or development context; not evidence of clinical benefit beyond the cited scope.
- Funding/conflicts
- Funding or sponsorship is recorded only where the cited source and claim state it; otherwise it is not assessed in this record. No conflict-of-interest assessment is reported for this administrative or program-source record.
- Replication or corroboration
- The administrative or program claim is anchored to the cited authoritative source; independent clinical replication is not implied.
- Decision use
- Use as source-bounded context for Health-system leaders, Payers/employers, Clinicians, Policymakers, Innovators; do not use as stand-alone evidence of safety, efficacy, coverage, endorsement, or scaled adoption.
- Last reviewed / review due
- Last reviewed 2026-09-03; review due 2026-09-10 or before consequential use, whichever comes first.
For this decision
Health-system leaders · Payers/employers · Clinicians · Policymakers · Innovators