AJMC September 17, 2021
The study found that BPCI Model 3, which held postacute facilities accountable for costs of care, was not associated with payment reductions or changes in other quality and selection metrics among skilled nursing facilities.
Lessons learned from a Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) effort to find savings in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) should be used to design more impactful reforms to reduce Medicare spending on postacute care,,according to an editorial published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
The editorial focused on the study “Savings and outcomes under Medicare’s bundled payments initiative for skilled nursing facilities,” which appeared in the journal’s August issue.. The study used Medicare claims from 2012 and 2017 to examine whether a one model,...
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