CMS launches new, voluntary bundled payment model

Healthcare DIVE January 10, 2018
Shannon Muchmore

Dive Brief:

• The CMS late on Tuesday announced a new voluntary bundled payment model. It will cover 32 clinical episodes, of which 29 are inpatient and three are outpatient.
• The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCIA) program will be considered an advanced alternative payment model (APM) for purposes of MACRA reporting. CMS will accept applications through March 12, and the performance period will start Oct. 1.
• The model will have voluntary participation, as opposed to the mandatory programs the CMS canceled late last year for cardiac and hip fracture episodes.

Dive Insight:

BCPIA is the first major initiative of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) under the Trump administration. CMS Administrator Seema Verma has repeatedly...

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