Bundled Payments for Care Improvement

Medicare Bundled Payment Programs Primed to Produce Savings

June 7, 2018 - Medicare’s bundled payment programs are in an opportune position to produce additional savings and create a more cost-effective public payer program with certain revisions, a new white paper from USC Brookings explains. CMS’s current bundled payment programs would achieve greater cost effectiveness by extending acute hospital...


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Bundled Payments Require Clinical Insights, Provider Buy-In

by Thomas Beaton

Payers see bundled payments as a way to promote value-based reimbursement practices but must first leverage clinical insights and provider buy-in to maximize a bundle’s potential...

UnitedHealth Offers Data Analytics to CMS Bundled Payment Program

by Thomas Beaton

UnitedHealth Group will help support a new Medicare bundled payment program by offering data and analytics services to participating providers. The payer announced in a press release that it will...

How Payers Can Build a Successful Bundled Payment Strategy

by Thomas Beaton

Bundled payment models are a popular reimbursement option for payers because they present an opportunity to improve healthcare quality, lower costs, and participate in value-based agreements with...

Why Bundled Payments Are a Popular Option for Healthcare Payers

by Thomas Beaton

Bundled payments are ideal for payers that want to participate in value-based care. Bundled payments tend to have lower financial risks than other payment models for payers and are beneficial to...

Joint Replacement Bundled Payment Cut Costs, Maintained Volume

by Jacqueline LaPointe

A new Altarum Institute study confirmed previous research that bundled payment models for lower extremity joint replacements decreased care costs without sacrificing care quality or substantially...

Bundled Payment Model Attracts More Oncologists than Expected

by Vera Gruessner

The new bundled payment model from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) called the Oncology Care Model has shown strong participation numbers among healthcare providers with twice as...

How CMS Alternative Payment Programs Impact Healthcare

by Vera Gruessner

Over the last five years, the Centers for the Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released many new payment systems for Medicare providers including shared savings, pay-for-performance programs,...

3 Ways Bundled Payment Models Brought Hospital Cost Savings

by Vera Gruessner

Case studies of bundled payment models show significant cost savings among hospitals and both public and private health insurers. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), for instance,...

Why Healthcare Bundled Payment Models May Expand in 2017

by Vera Gruessner

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have advanced bundled payment models by implementing these value-based payment structures in orthopedic and cardiac care. CMS released a finalized...

Commercial Payers Behind CMS in Bundled Payment Models

by Vera Gruessner

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have heavily invested in pursuing bundled payment models as an alternative form of payment for medical care among Medicare beneficiaries....

Latest CMS Bundled Payment Strategies May Need Revision

by Vera Gruessner

The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute has found problems with some of the latest bundled payment strategies coming from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) including flaws...

CMS Bundled Payment Models Cut $864 for Orthopedic Care Episode

by Vera Gruessner

Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a report encompassing the second annual evaluation of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, according to The...

CMS Redesigns Value-Based Model for Medicare Advantage Plans

by Vera Gruessner

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently announced in a new fact sheet that their Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design model will be changing slightly during its...

Should CMS Incorporate More Bundled Payment Programs?

by Vera Gruessner

Last month, the Center for American Progress (CAP) issued a statement urging the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to expand their work in bundled payment programs so that medical costs...

How to Overcome the Challenges of Bundled Payment Models

by Vera Gruessner

Bundled payment models are a form of reimbursement between payers and providers that adheres to an episode of care instead of payment for a particular medical service. This reimbursement system was created to transition healthcare...

Bundled Payment Models Need to Align Payer, Provider Incentives

by Vera Gruessner

Bundled payment models are growing in popularity throughout the health insurance industry partially due to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pushing forth alternative payment...