Mayo Clinic

San Francisco – September 07, 2026 -- Rainfall Health announced that Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida will deploy its AI-driven platform to manage care coordination and compliance under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), a mandatory payment program that took effect January 1, 2026.

CMS mandates 721 hospitals into value-based surgical episode program

CMS selected 721 hospitals for the first TEAM cohort, requiring value-based reimbursement across five high-volume surgical episodes. Hospitals missing cost and quality benchmarks face financial penalties, while those that meet targets can access reconciliation bonuses worth up to $85 million in new revenue.

New York – September 07, 2026 -- Bayesian Health has secured a New Technology Add-on Payment (NTAP) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, making it the first continuous sepsis monitoring technology to hold both FDA clearance and a dedicated Medicare reimbursement pathway.

The approval, issued under CMS's FY 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule, takes effect October 1, 2026, and allows hospitals using Bayesian's FDA-cleared sepsis flagging device to bill Medicare an add-on payment of up to $61.84 per eligible inpatient case.