What’s New For CMS Bundled Payments Program
Lexology June 4, 2019
This article was published by Law360 on June 3, 2019.
On April 24, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a request for applications for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model for its second cohort of applicants since the program’s inception.
BPCI Advanced is an initiative of CMS’ Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, and is designed to increase participation in voluntary bundled payment models.2 BPCI Advanced commenced for the first cohort of participants on Oct. 1, 2018, and the second cohort will begin participation on Jan. 1, 2020 for model year 3.3 As CMS does not anticipate issuing additional requests for applications for model years 4 (2021) through 6 (2023), this may be the last...