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.
For a change, I bring you news of health payment reform that is not accountable care. Starting in September, Kaleida Health, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based health system, will try out an alternative payment model that will put Kaleida's doctors and hospitals at financial risk for the cost of patients' avoidable medical complications.
The experiment, with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Western New York, will test bundled payments for coronary artery bypass graft surgery using the Prometheus payment formula.
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