Premier Healthcare Alliance recently offered CMS several recommendations for bundled payment model development, including making programs voluntary for providers across the nation.
CMS has implemented...
From acute myocardial infarctions to coronary artery bypass grafts initiatives, recent Medicare bundled payment models have providers focusing more on reducing healthcare costs and improving care...
As the value-based reimbursement transition pushes on, many provider organizations have turned to bundled payment models as a stepping stone to alternative payment model adoption.
“Bundled...
CMS finalized several new Medicare alternative payment models that will qualify for a five percent value-based incentive payment through the Quality Payment Program. The announcement contained bundled...
Earlier this year, CMS proposed a cardiac bundled payment model that would reduce Medicare spending by $170 million on five years, but a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
With the comment period on a proposed cardiac care bundled payments model closing earlier this week, the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) penned a letter to CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt...
Hospitals participating in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative decreased Medicare spending on lower extremity joint replacement hospitalizations by $1,166 per episode compared to...
The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative has the potential to significantly reduce Medicare spending on 11 of 15 clinical episode groups that were analyzed in the program’s second...
The recently proposed Medicare bundled payment model for cardiac care will likely bring only modest shared savings or losses to participants, according to a study from Avalere Health.
About 85 percent...
CMS has proposed to develop bundled payment models for cardiac care and hip surgeries that would qualify for financial incentives in the proposed Quality Payment Program in MACRA, according to a recent...
As officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sift through over 3,800 comments on the proposed rule for MACRA implementation, the Healthcare Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3)...
The Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington think tank, has called on the federal government to expand bundled payment models in order to further reduce healthcare costs and advance...
As the healthcare industry moves towards value-based care, more providers are choosing alternative payment models to facilitate the transition. CAPG, a trade association of accountable physician...
As federal agencies and commercial payers push to eliminate fee-for-service payment models, value-based reimbursement structures have been on the top of most healthcare provider and payer agendas.
The...
The hospital industry has been experiencing a number of challenges in recent years due to the payment reforms coming from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and commercial health payers.
There has been a much greater...
The federal government especially the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have long focused on reducing healthcare spending and implementing alternative payment models such as...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that some healthcare organizations can extend their participation in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative,...
One of the attributes of a sustainable value-based healthcare delivery system is payment based on the value of services delivered, instead of the volume-based fee-for-service model.
Bundled payments...
