Bundled Payments news and information

Almost half of physician group practices responding to a recent survey said they would curtail appointments for new Medicare patients if Congress does not prevent a steep Medicare physician pay cut.
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In June, the MGMA-ACMPE released the results of a questionnaire that ranked members' most-pressing practice management challenges. In this edition of "Practice Makes Perfect," we'll tackle No. 2 on that list: Preparing for reimbursement models that place a greater share of financial risk on the...
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Accountable care, like political ads during a presidential campaign, is everywhere these days. And like Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, the frenzy around accountable care organizations have left them overexposed.
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Modern Healthcare finance reporter and New York bureau chief Melanie Evans catches up with chief financial officers from three prominent not-for-profit hospital systems who presented at the closed-door Non-Profit Health Care Investor Conference in New York. They offered their revenue and expense...
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Four Tennessee orthopedic practices have inked an agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee to establish a bundled-payment system for total knee and hip replacements.
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Two years ago, Cleveland Clinic and home-improvement retailer Lowe's entered into an innovative healthcare deal in which Clinic doctors perform heart surgeries on Lowe's employees for a bundled payment.
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Bundled payments for total knee replacements would save employers between 5% and 10%, according to research conducted by the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute.
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Affinity Health System in Wisconsin's Fox Valley has converted from a jointly sponsored three-hospital system into an entity controlled by a single Roman Catholic hospital operator with the goal of becoming an accountable care organization.
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In unveiling a proposal to improve healthcare quality and lower costs, the leader of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association said the federal government should extract what works in the private sector and then communicate that message broadly and quickly.
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Providers considering the first model of the CMS Innovation Center's bundled-payment initiative now have more time to express their interest and prepare applications, the CMS...
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