CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center’s 6-point plan to succeed with bundled payments

Writing for the Harvard Business Review, Derek Haas—CEO of Avant-garde Health—and Jamie Chang—CCO at CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (HPMC)—outline the six steps HPMC took to succeed in CMS’ Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCIA) model.

HPMC’s 6-step plan

1. Develop the right team and governance

Once it enrolled in BPCIA, HPMC developed a new continuing care team (CCT) dedicated to BPCIA, Haas and Chang write, which was tasked with identifying likely BPCIA patients and which would follow confirmed BPCIA patients from hospitalization through 90 days post-discharge. Among other post-discharge tasks, CCT worked with case management to determine the appropriate care levels for post-discharge BPCIA patients and provided access to a 24/7 nurse advice hotline to avoid...