Chilmark Report Reveals Strategies and Tools for Bundled Payment Programs
HIT Consultant January 21, 2019
Recent CMS rule changes have once again brought bundled payments into the national spotlight. Addressing established uncertainty amongst payers and providers on the future of bundled payments, Chilmark’s latest report analyzes the market trends shaping this space and describes available health IT solutions to help healthcare organizations (HCOs) adapt to these new value-based payment programs.
Challenges to Bundled Payment Programs
The report, Bundled Payments: Current Strategies and Tools, starts by shedding light on the challenges that have plagued efforts to implement these payment models. This includes questions about how smaller-scale HCOs will adapt to increased collaboration requirements, to what extent actual cost savings can be realized through bundling, and concerns about the efficacy of existing IT solutions for enabling the...