In the continuing effort to increase quality and decrease costs, health plans and providers are shifting from volume-based care to a value-based reimbursement structure. Value-based reimbursement ...

Assisting clients in assessing and designing pilots for the CMS Innovation Center Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Navigant and 3M Health Information Systems ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BCPI) initiative has generally been more attractive to providers than either of its two accountable care ...

If bundled payments are the wave of the future for paying healthcare providers, they still have a long way to go. A pilot program at hospitals in California that intended to test bundled payments for ...

August 24, 2011 — Physicians would get reimbursed by an admitting hospital instead of by Medicare for inpatient care they deliver to seniors, under 1 of 4 models of pilot projects for bundled payments ...

The American Hospital Association has released the first in a series of AHA Research Synthesis Reports, which discusses the potential implications of bundled payments and addresses key areas for ...

Prakash Patel, MD, CEO of Access MediQuip, a provider of surgery and implant management solutions, recently wrote an article that was published in Hospitals & Health Networks Daily about successful ...

Hospitals will carry on with voluntary bundled payment models in the wake of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cancelling and scaling back on mandatory initiatives, according to experts ...

“These high deductible plans require patients to pay cash payments for medical services until the high deductible is satisfied, and once this deductible has been met, the insurance carrier begins to ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is further delaying the implementation of bundled payment models that were scheduled to begin on May 20, to January 1, 2018. This affects episode payment ...