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cms access accepted applicants roster 3leg scan

2026-07-13·research-brief·source: deep-research·by Ray Data Co (deep-research synthesis)
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CMS ACCESS accepted-applicants roster — re-attempt to close the unnamed-~100 blind spot on the 3-leg (DS+VBC+PI) rubric

The question

Pull the full CMS ACCESS Model accepted-applicants roster (HTML or PDF from cms.gov; WebFetch timed out twice previously) and check the unnamed ~100 against the (DS + VBC + PI) 3-leg rubric for any 3/3 patient-data-sovereignty competitor. Context: the parent [[2026-05-18-cms-access-approved-applicant-roster]] named and cleared ~50 of the 150+ applicants; the residual risk lives in the unnamed ~100.

What we already know (from the vault)

What the web says

Convergences and contradictions

Synthesis for RDCO

No unnamed applicant was found to score 2/3 or 3/3 — but that is because none of the unnamed ~100 could be individually enumerated, not because they were each read and cleared. This pass did not obtain the roster. The direct CMS page returned a hard 403 (the "timed out twice" of the parent brief is now "403-blocked" — same net result: unreachable to automated fetch), the Internet Archive has no snapshot, and no machine-readable data.cms.gov dataset for ACCESS exists yet. I did not fabricate any of the ~100 names, and none should be inferred.

What did move: the named-and-cleared set expanded by one. Story Health Partners is newly surfaced and scores 1/3 — VBC leg present (at-risk virtual cardiovascular specialty care, the exact ACCESS shape), DS absent (standard EHR data, not patient-as-data-principal), PI absent (no patient cash from a savings share). It is the same 1/3-ceiling pattern as every other named participant, and it is a partner/adjacent shape, not a competitor shape. Second Opinion also confirmed that the marquee wearable/MSK names one might most expect (Hinge, Sword, Oura, Apple) are not in ACCESS — narrowing, not widening, the field of plausible sovereignty-adjacent entrants.

So the blind spot is narrowed, not closed. The narrowing rests on three legs of indirect evidence rather than a roster read: (1) four independent enumerations now cover ~51 of the 150+ and surface zero sovereignty-positioned names — the sampling keeps returning the same clusters (consumer wellness, behavioral health, VBC enablers, food-as-medicine, AI-native chronic care, MSK, FQHCs/health systems); (2) the structural argument is strong and now doubly confirmed — ACCESS pays the provider for savings and routes data back to health systems, so a participant would have to bolt DS+PI on from outside the model, and nothing observed does that; (3) the June 27 close-out shows the closest competitors pivoting away, so the prior probability of a hidden 3/3 is falling over time, not rising. The honest residual risk: ~100 applicants remain individually unread, and a sovereignty-positioned org small enough to escape all trade-press coverage could sit among them. That probability is low and getting lower, but it is not zero, and this pass did not drive it to zero.

Net for the bet: the patient-data-sovereignty + outcome-procurement wedge survives this re-check. ACCESS remains a venue to operationalize the wedge inside, not a crowded field. But the "pull the full roster" task should be marked still open / blocked on access, not complete — the correct next action is a non-WebFetch retrieval path (see follow-ups), not another WebFetch retry, which will keep 403-ing.

Why this is in the vault

Keeps the patient-data-sovereignty + outcome-procurement wedge honest: it records that the unnamed ~100 CMS ACCESS applicants remain individually unread (cms.gov now 403-blocks automated fetch), so the competitor blind spot is narrowed but NOT closed. Without this note the roster task would be mis-marked complete and the residual risk would drop silently off the bet's risk register.

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