Bundled Payment

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow participants in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model to retroactively withdraw all or some episode initiators and clinical episodes from the model in March 2019, the agency announced Friday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the deadline for submitting signed participation agreements and selecting clinical episodes for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model by one week to Aug. 8, and the due date for program deliverables to Sept. 14.
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to offer two additional start date options for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model in 2019 – Jan. 1 and April 1.
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, and our clinician partners – including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers – and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership…
Hospitals participating in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative and Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model vary with respect to a number of organizational characteristics.
CMS Tuesday posted a list of Medicare-Severity-Diagnosis Related Groups that will be excluded from the clinical episodes of care in its Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model.
The AHA yesterday recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provide a complete package of information on its new Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model by March 1.
The AHA requests additional information and a delay in implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI Advanced) announced on Jan. 9.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a second question-and-answer session Feb. 15 on applying for and participating in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model.