Healthcare Innovation June 3, 2024
Analysis of overlap between BPCI Advanced and ACO initiatives has health equity implications
A new report says that capturing participant experiences in both the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced Model and ACO models can help inform how bundled payments might be incorporated into ACOs in the future.
In Model Year 4, the BPCI Advanced Model, which began in 2018 and is scheduled to conclude in 2025, resulted in Medicare program savings for the first time since the model began in 2018, according to a May 2024 report prepared by the Lewin Group Inc. with partners Abt Associates,
GDIT, and Telligen.
Savings were achieved not only for surgical episodes but for medical episodes as well. The report explains that these...