CMS identifies keys to success in bundled payment as BPCI-A deadline looms
HFMA June 19, 2019
- Providers wishing to join the voluntary BPCI-A program have until June 24 to apply for the program’s final open-enrollment period.
- Some hospitals that have earned bonus payments under the mandatory CJR bundles have not collected the payments.
- The administration is considering extending the CJR program, which has only one year left.
Ahead of next week’s deadline for providers to join the largest voluntary bundled payment program, the agency in charge of the program identified lessons learned by successful participants.
Christina Ritter, PhD, director of the patient care models group for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), spoke at a healthcare industry gathering in Washington, D.C., about what has set apart successful participants during the first year...