STAT+: A major insurer on how it may replicate Medicare’s chronic-care experiment

Blue Shield of California is one of 17 major health plans that has committed to adopting payment models inspired by the Medicare Innovation Center’s ACCESS Model, according to STAT’s Health Tech newsletter.

The insurer’s chief medical officer, Ravi Kavasery, told STAT that Blue Shield is still figuring out the details of what this will look like, including whether it will adopt CMS payment amounts and what organizations it will work with.

Blue Shield of California, which serves 6 million members, expects to launch similar models in commercial plans in 2027. The article is a STAT+ exclusive story, so the excerpt does not include further specifics about the design or scope of the planned payment models.