Redesigning Healthcare Delivery Through Bundled Payments for Care

Q&A With Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's Valinda Rutledge
On Aug. 22, CMS released a request for application for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative. The initiative, created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, incents physicians and hospitals to coordinate care, which is intended to improve quality and reduce healthcare costs associated with treating Medicaid beneficiaries. For providers that are accepted, CMS will pay for an entire episode of a patient care, rather than pay for each service separately, and physicians and healthcare facilities will be able to share in any savings created by better coordinating care. Read the Q&A article...

Related: NBCH Webinar: Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (September 19, 2011)

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Webinar Recording

Helpful Links –

• HCI3: Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute
• HOW HOSPITALS, PHYSICIANS, AND OTHERS CAN GET ORGANIZED TO PARTICIPATE IN CMS’ BUNDLED PAYMENT PILOT, By Alice G. Gosfield
• CMMI: Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (Fact Sheet, FAQS, Request for Application, Application information and materials)

CPDP Requests Sign on to Comments on Releasing Medicare Data - DUE 8/8 1pm ET

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires Medicare data be made available to “Qualified Entities” for performance reporting. In response the CMS’ proposed rule, the Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project has developed the attached comments. If you would like to sign-on to the letter, please send your organization’s name to Dena Mendelsohn (dmendelsohn@pbgh.org) by Monday, August 8th, 1pm EDT.

• Sign-On Letter
• Suggested Edits to Proposed Regs