Launching ACCESS Resource Center: A Practical Hub for the CMS/CMMI ACCESS Innovation Model
If you have tried to make sense of a new Medicare innovation model in real time, you already know the pattern: the key requirements are scattered across dozens of webpages, PDFs, slide decks, webinars, FAQs, and informal commentary. You end up spending hours bouncing between sources just to answer basic questions like: What is required? What is optional? What changed? What do operators actually need to do next?
That problem is exactly why I built ACCESS Resource Center.
This site is designed to be a central, continuously updated knowledge hub for the CMS/CMMI ACCESS Innovation Model—with an emphasis on helping people move from “reading” to “operating.”
What is ACCESS Resource Center?
ACCESS Resource Center is a curated library of the most relevant CMS ACCESS model resources in one place—organized for practical use.
The goal is simple:
Reduce the time it takes to understand the model
Improve accuracy by keeping source material easy to verify
Help teams adopt the model well (not just quickly)
Instead of searching through 20+ separate sources every time a question comes up, you can start at one hub and work outward from there—using the original sources as ground truth.
Who is it for?
If you are involved in Medicare strategy, operations, clinical transformation, value-based care, digital health enablement, or policy implementation, this is for you—especially if you’re working in or alongside:
Physician groups and medical group leadership
Health systems and population health teams
Value-based care operators, analytics teams, and program managers
Digital health companies building “ACCESS-adjacent” products and services
Advisors, consultants, legal/compliance partners, and investors tracking the model
Clinicians who want a clear, operator-friendly explanation of what this model is and how it works
In short: anyone who has searched “CMS ACCESS Innovation Model requirements” or “CMMI ACCESS model explained” and ended up neck-deep in PDFs.
What you’ll find inside
ACCESS Resource Center is built to support how people actually learn and execute new CMS models:
Primary sources, organized
You’ll find direct links to official CMS/CMMI pages, PDFs, and reference materials—organized so you can quickly locate the exact source behind any claim.
Operator-focused summaries (with traceability)
For busy operators, summaries matter—but only if you can verify them. The site is intended to make it easy to read fast and click through to the underlying source when needed.
News, events, webinars, and transcripts
A lot of the most useful nuance in CMS models shows up in webinars, office hours, stakeholder calls, and Q&A sessions. The goal is to make those discoverable and easy to reference over time—not lost in a calendar invite.
A place to contribute and discover community insights
As this model evolves, the community will produce high-signal interpretations and implementation learnings. The resource center is designed to make it easier to find the best of that commentary and keep it connected to the primary sources.
Why launch this now?
Because the ACCESS Innovation Model will create a familiar dynamic:
Early excitement and confusion
A scramble to interpret requirements
Duplicate work across teams and organizations
Implementation errors that could have been avoided with better visibility
Then, months later, a clearer “common understanding”—after a lot of wasted time
My intent is to compress that cycle and make the model easier to implement thoughtfully.
Better information architecture leads to better adoption.
How to use the site (practically)
If you’re an operator, here’s a simple workflow:
Start at ACCESS Resource Center
Use it as your “home base” for the model
When you see a requirement or claim, click through to the source
Save/share the source internally to align stakeholders faster
Re-check the hub periodically as CMS guidance evolves
This is meant to be the first tab you open—not the 21st.
SEO keywords this site is built around (and why that matters)
This is not just a library—it’s also designed so people can actually find it when they search. The focus is on high-intent queries like:
CMS ACCESS Innovation Model
CMMI ACCESS model
Medicare ACCESS model
ACCESS Innovation Model explained
CMS ACCESS model requirements
ACCESS model implementation guidance
ACCESS Innovation Model webinars transcript
CMS Innovation Model ACCESS resources
If you work in this space, you already know that the highest-friction part is discovery: important resources exist, but they are hard to locate, compare, and track over time. A good hub improves implementation simply by being findable.
A quick note on my perspective
I’m a physician-operator who has worked around multiple Medicare programs and initiatives over the years. The consistent pain point is not lack of information—it’s fragmentation. Teams repeatedly spend time re-collecting the same inputs before they can even begin analysis or execution.
ACCESS Resource Center is my attempt to reduce that tax.
If you’re interested in the broader theme of helping clinicians and operators build real-world business and operational fluency, my education project is ClinX Academy (not the focus here, but relevant context).
I also co-host the Mastering Medicare podcast, where we spend a lot of time unpacking how Medicare actually works in practice.
Visit the site
If you’re working on anything related to the CMS/CMMI ACCESS Innovation Model—or you just want a single place to start—here it is:
If it saves you time, reduces confusion, or helps your team align faster, it’s doing its job.
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