Starting January 2026, over 700 US hospitals must comply with CMS TEAM, a mandatory bundled payment program covering five high-volume surgical episodes with 30-day post-discharge accountability windows. Traditional retrospective analytics are insufficient — success requires real-time data integration across EHR, claims, and post-acute care sources, predictive risk models, clinical decision support embedded in workflows, and continuous provider performance benchmarking. Health systems that build modern cloud data infrastructure can capture $4M–$30M annually in shared savings, while unprepared organizations risk $10M+ in repayments. Databricks and value-based care partners offer a TEAM Risk Readiness Assessment to help organizations prioritize investments across data integration, analytics maturity, and clinical workflow adoption.
