extract: 2026-03-20-fierce-healthcare-obbba-domino-effect

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 AARP 2025 data confirms: 92% of nursing homes report significant/severe shortages, ~70% of assisted living facilities report similar shortages, all 50 states face home care worker shortages, and 43 states have seen HCBS provider closures due to worker shortages. Median paid caregiver wage is only $15.43/hour, yet facilities still cannot attract workers.
 
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+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2026-03-20-fierce-healthcare-obbba-domino-effect]] | Added: 2026-03-20*
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+ARPA home care funding expires end of 2026, creating a funding cliff for the home care workforce. 40% of home care workers live in low-income households and 1/3 rely on Medicaid themselves. The ARPA expiry compounds the existing workforce crisis by removing federal funding support at the same time that OBBBA work requirements threaten workers' own Medicaid coverage. This is a supply-side shock layered on top of the existing shortage.
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domains/health/value-based care transitions stall at the payment boundary because 60 percent of payments touch value metrics but only 14 percent bear full risk.md

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 CHW reimbursement infrastructure demonstrates the same payment boundary stall in the SDOH domain: 20 states with approved SPAs after 17 years, with billing code uptake remaining slow even where reimbursement is technically available. The bottleneck is not policy approval but operational infrastructure — CBOs cannot contract with healthcare entities, transportation costs are not covered, and 'community care hubs' are emerging as coordination infrastructure. This parallels VBC's 60% touch / 14% risk gap: technical capability exists but the operational infrastructure to execute at scale does not.
 
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+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2026-03-20-fierce-healthcare-obbba-domino-effect]] | Added: 2026-03-20*
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+Fierce Healthcare's 2026 outlook shows the OBBBA domino mechanism: Medicaid work requirements → coverage loss → newly uninsured seek ER care → uncompensated care absorbed by health systems → financial stress → less investment in VBC infrastructure → VBC transition slows. This provides a specific causal pathway for how policy-induced coverage disruption directly undermines VBC adoption by forcing health systems to absorb uncompensated care costs that would otherwise fund infrastructure investment.
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 ## Content
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 PRIMARY CONNECTION: [[value-based care transitions stall at the payment boundary because 60 percent of payments touch value metrics but only 14 percent bear full risk]]
 WHY ARCHIVED: Industry outlook showing how health systems and investors are actually responding to OBBBA — important ground-truth for whether the VBC attractor state thesis is being operationally abandoned or tactically adapted.
 EXTRACTION HINT: The most extractable finding is the COMPOUND TIMING CRISIS: OBBBA work requirements (December 2026) + ARPA home care funding expiry (end 2026) hitting simultaneously. This is a discrete, dateable event that can be made into a specific claim.
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+## Key Facts
+- OBBBA Medicaid work requirements take effect December 2026
+- ARPA home care funding expires end of 2026
+- Fierce Healthcare projects $204 billion increase in uncompensated care over 10 years from OBBBA
+- 40% of home care workers live in low-income households
+- 1/3 of home care workers rely on Medicaid themselves
+- DOGE gained access to CMS payment and contracting systems February 5, 2025
+- CMS staff reductions underway as of March 2025
+- Rock Health is interested in companies supporting enrollment, navigation, or safety net capacity
+- Pear Suite is a CHW care management platform receiving VC interest