Don't Bury
The LEAD

The most important details about CMS's LEAD Model shouldn't be buried in a 400-page rule. Explore practical esources, expert insights, and readiness tools designed to help your organization prepare with confidence.

What Is the LEAD Model,
and What Does It Mean for
Your ACO?

CMS's LEAD Model takes effect January 1, 2027,bringing new expectations for how ACOs measurerisk, document patient complexity, and prepare forvalue-based care.

If you're still working through what the changes mean for your organization,you're not alone. Between new guidance, evolving terminology, andhundreds of pages of regulation, it's easy for the details that matter most toget buried.

We've surfaced the key guidance, practical resources, expert perspectives,and a two-minute readiness assessment so you can spend less time siftingthrough regulations and more time preparing for what's ahead.

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Your LEAD Model Resource Center

We've already done the digging. Explore the resources below to understand what matters, whatactions to prioritize, and how your organization can prepare for LEAD.

Les Granow, CFO Longevity Health Interview

Amanda Tufano, Former CEO Genevive

Yubin Park, Chief Builder, mimilabs

Isaac Park, CEO Keebler Health: AI in Healthcare Explained

AAHCM Keebler AIP – Webinar – Value Based Care Solutions for High Risk Medicare Patients

What should clinicians expect and not expect from agentic AI in healthcare?

Why there is a time and a place for AI in healthcare - and what those are.

AI Meets Home Care: The Future of Healthcare with Isaac Park & Hank Ross

The Shift to Risk: How Capitated Models Are Redefining Home-Based Primary Care

Top 5 Challenges in HCC Coding (and How AI Is Reshaping the Process)

What Is Risk Adjustment Software?

Understanding HCC v28: What Changed, What It Means, and How to Prepare

Top 5 AI Platforms for Risk Adjustment

A missed appointment is a normal thing.

CMS CY 2027 Advance Notice

Keebler Health Raises $16M to Unlock Unstructured Clinical Data for the Next Generation of Risk Adjustment, Population Health, and RADV Audit Readiness

Fierce Healthcare: Keebler Health secures $16M in series A funding for AI-powered risk adjustment platform

Turning Patient Data Into Meaningful Action

Move Fast First, Measure Later: The Accountability Problem after AI Adoption

How Ready Are You for LEAD?

Preparing for CMS's new LEAD Model starts with seeing the full picture. Find out where your organization stands with a quick LEAD readiness assessment. In just two minutes, you’ll identify risk adjustment gaps and uncover the steps you can take to prepare for Year One.

Can you see the whole patient story?We can access unstructured clinical documents (discharge summaries, specialist notes, HIE feeds) — i.e. not just claimsCare delivered outside our four walls reliably makes it into our risk adjustment viewOur high-need patients’ histories are complete enough to support patient-level benchmarkingWhen a condition appears in a note but never in a claim, we have a way to catch itCould you defend your numbers tomorrow?Every captured HCC traces to visible source documentationConditions coded last year are re-supported this year — i.e. recapture isn’t an annual scrambleIf audited, we could produce evidence for any patient in days, not weeksLeadership can explain why our benchmarks look the way they doIs readiness built into how you work?Our analysts spend more time analyzing than hunting for dataRisk adjustment insights reach clinicians inside the EHR — i.e. not in a separate portal they have to remember existsPre-visit preparation surfaces suspected conditions before the encounter, not afterOur coding workload is sustainable without year-end heroicsAre you ready for what’s new?We know our current RAF gap —through measurement, not guessworkWe have a plan to stay safely within the 3–8% risk growth capWe know which specialists drive our most expensive episodes (our CARA opportunity)We have a strategy for quality measures like Unplanned Admissions alongside risk accuracyWe’ve identified what must be fixed before Jan 1, 2027 and who owns each item

Once you submit the checklist, we’ll email you a copy of your responses, readiness score, and personalized to-do list, including where Keebler can help.

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Some of the Most Important Information Isn't Buried in the Rule. It's Buried in Your Data.

Preparing for LEAD isn't just about understanding the regulations. It's aboutmaking sure your patient population is represented as accurately as possible .Important clinical evidence often lives in scanned notes, consult reports, andoutside records that traditional workflows can't easily use. K eebler uncoversclinically supported risk ad justment opportunities hidden in unstructured data,helping organizations surface the documentation they need to better reflectpatient complexity.

Don't Bury The LEAD

What Is the LEAD Model,and What Does It Mean forYour ACO?