Bundled Payments news and information

Leading up to the launch this week of the state insurance exchanges, the Obama administration made clear that the online marketplaces would go live despite a government shutdown if Congress failed to pass a spending bill. But what about the implementation of other provisions in the Patient...
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The Cleveland Clinic is making a push to win more business directly from the nation's largest employers by marketing package deals for new hips and knees and spine surgeries.
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Payment reform is considered one of the keys to transforming the healthcare system from one that rewards volume to one that incentivizes value and quality. Health insurers have stepped up and are using their influence to test these new concepts.
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Hospitals would get a 1.8% boost in their outpatient Medicare payments next year while the increase for ambulatory surgery centers would total 0.9%, under a proposed rule from the CMS.
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Dialysis service providers would see a 9.4% cut to their Medicare pay in 2014 under a proposed CMS update issued late Monday.
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Georgia Regents Medical Center in Augusta, Ga., has inked a long-term bundled-payments agreement with Royal Philips that includes consulting services, medical technology purchases and maintenance, and other services.
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Jeffrey Weinstein, executive director and CEO of Hunterdon Healthcare Partners, explains the physician hospital organization's work toward clinical integration and participation in public and private innovations in payment models. He was interviewed during the Healthcare Financial Management...
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Managed care rapidly gained and quickly lost favor more than a decade ago, but even as it lost ground, it never fully lost a hold in the market. Now, it's an increasingly popular option among seniors enrolled in Medicare, and some managed-care tenets—care coordination led by primary care and...
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New research highlights what makes bundled-payment programs effective and what gets in the way of their success.
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The next chief of the CMS' idea lab will enter the scene just as early results emerge from the young agency's first efforts. Those returns will be closely scrutinized for clues to solving the nation's toughest health policy challenges, as well as picked apart for political gain.
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