Health Payer Intelligence December 11, 2017
Bundled payments present payers with a low-risk way to manage healthcare payments, increase care quality, and participate with providers in value-based care.
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 providers as well as payers.
In a bundled payment arrangement, payers are only responsible for a single payment that covers all the services included in a defined episode of care, which means there is lower financial risk than other types of value-based agreements for payers. Bundled payments can be administered as one bulk payment to a provider organization, or dividend payments to participating providers, making it easier...