Medical Economics November 13, 2019
Alyssa Dahl

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) program has just closed applications for its second cohort of participants, and in March, allowed participants from the first cohort to elect to leave the program before taking on risk. Despite a 16 percent drop in enrollment, the program still has significant participation numbers with almost 1,300 providers remaining.

While alarming on the surface, this dropout was likely due to several factors. First, an extremely tight turnaround between when the program was announced and when applications were due probably led providers to apply before being able to fully analyze which episodes made the most sense to participate in. The risk of not being included in BPCI-A far exceeded the inconvenient possibility...

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