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Watch our interview with IDENTI’s Lisa Miller to learn how your hospital can prepare for TEAM.

  • Prepare for the CMS TEAM Payment Model
  • Use automatic charge capture to accurately track product usage
  • Identify opportunities to reduce cost variation
  • Strengthen compliance and performance under TEAM

The Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) is redefining how hospitals manage costs, quality, and accountability for patient outcomes. Beginning January 1, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will launch TEAM, a mandatory bundled payment program that holds hospitals responsible for both the cost and quality of care for 30 days after specific inpatient procedures.

Under TEAM, hospitals must coordinate care across the entire episode, from surgery through post-acute recovery, while meeting strict cost and quality benchmarks.

In this interview, Lisa Miller, Chief Sales Officer at Identi Medical, explains the challenges and opportunities that come with TEAM. She highlights how understanding true surgical case costs and improving care team collaboration are essential for success.

Lisa also details how IDENTI Medical’s patent-protected Snap&Go™ technology empowers hospitals to gain complete visibility into every implant and supply used in surgery. Using computer vision and machine learning, Snap&Go™ automatically captures 100% of product and implant data in real time, giving hospitals accurate documentation and actionable insights into their true costs per procedure. This AI-driven charge capture not only enhances revenue integrity but also ensures hospitals have the precise data they need to meet TEAM’s cost and quality targets.

Watch the full interview to learn how your organization can prepare for TEAM, use automatic charge capture to accurately track their product usage to understand their real costs, and succeed under TEAM.

Want to learn how Snap&Go can prepare your hospital for the CMS TEAM payment model? 

FAQ: Interview: What to Know About the CMS TEAM Payment Model 2026

The Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) is a new bundled payment program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launching January 1, 2026. It holds hospitals accountable for the cost and quality of care for 30 days after specific surgical procedures.

These procedures include:

  • Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
  • Lower extremity joint replacement (LEJR)
  • Major bowel procedures
  • Spinal fusions
  • Hip and femur fracture repairs

TEAM aims to improve patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs by encouraging hospitals and providers to coordinate care across the entire episode, from surgery through recovery. It rewards hospitals that deliver high-quality, efficient care and penalizes those with excessive costs or readmissions.

TEAM shifts hospital reimbursement from traditional fee-for-service to a bundled payment model that rewards value over volume. Instead of being paid separately for each service, hospitals receive a single payment covering the entire episode of care, including inpatient, physician, and 30 days of post-acute services. CMS sets a target price for each episode based on historical and regional data. Hospitals that deliver care below that cost while meeting quality metrics keep the savings, while those exceeding the target may owe repayments. In short, TEAM ties hospital revenue directly to cost control, quality outcomes, and coordinated care across the full patient journey.

Accurate, real-time data is critical for hospitals to succeed under the CMS TEAM payment model because reimbursement depends on understanding the true cost of each surgical episode. Because hospitals are responsible for cost and quality across 30 days of care, incomplete or delayed data can lead to inaccurate cost tracking, missed billing opportunities, and poor decision-making. Many hospitals today capture only about half of the supplies and implants used in surgery, making it difficult to calculate real case costs.

With AI-powered charge capture tools like IDENTI Medical’s Snap&Go™, hospitals can automatically record 100% of product and implant usage at the point of care, giving leaders the visibility they need to manage costs, improve quality scores, and perform accurately under TEAM’s bundled payment system.

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About the author

Olivia Walker is IDENTI’s Global Marketing Director and has a wealth of experience in the health-tech sector. Her innovative marketing strategies have successfully driven IDENTI’s growth in multiple worldwide markets. Her strength is the ability to identify what truly resonates within the industry. She is passionate about building relationships and her expertise lies in creating meaningful partnerships with healthcare providers, distributors, and suppliers.
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