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. 2025 Nov 4.
doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000006972. Online ahead of print.

Low Volumes, High Stakes: CMS Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) and Rural Hospitals

Cody Lendon Mullens  1   2   3 , Jamila Picart  1   2   3 , Nicholas Kunnath  2 , Janice C Probst  4 , Justin B Dimick  1   2 , Andrew M Ibrahim  1   2   5
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Low Volumes, High Stakes: CMS Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) and Rural Hospitals

Cody Lendon Mullens et al. Ann Surg. .
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Keywords: TEAM; Transforming Episode Accountability Model; health policy; rural; rural surgery; value based care.

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Financial disclosures and funding: Dr. Dimick is a cofounder of ArborMetrix, Inc, a company that makes software for profiling hospital quality and efficiency. The authors have no conflicts of interest pertaining to the work herein. Drs. Ibrahim and Dimick receive unrelated funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on grant R01-HS028606-01A1, from AHRQ on grant R18-HS028963, and from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on grant R0-1DK137466.

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