CMMI Could Put Post-Acute Providers Back in Control of Bundled Payments
Skilled Nursing News April 10, 2019
The leader of the federal government’s center for reimbursement innovation said he is considering bundled payment models where post-acute care providers could take the lead on care — but right now it’s only at the consideration stage.
Adam Boehler, who leads the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), said that there has been significant interest from the industry in post-acute care bundles in a speech at the annual meeting of the American Hospital Association earlier this week.
“Now is the time to raise ideas there,” he said at the gathering on Monday.
Given the early stages of the proposal and the concept, it’s hard to zero in on specifics of the...