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Bundled Payments For Care Improvement Initiative – Insights From The Test Pilots Of Payment Reform, Jason M. Sutherland, William B. Borden
Bundled Payments For Care Improvement Initiative – Insights From The Test Pilots Of Payment Reform, Jason M. Sutherland, William B. Borden
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Background: The Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) pilot program aims to reward high-value providers by setting a global payment target for particular episodes of care. The representativeness of BPCI participants will influence the ability of this pilot to inform policy decisions. Methods: We linked the Medicare lists of participants in the risk-bearing portion of BPCI Model 2, encompassing acute and post-acute care, to the American Hospital Association resource file and the 2013 Hospital Value-Based Purchasing quality performance data. We classified episode-initiating hospitals by the number of bundles in which they were participating into “narrow”, “medium” and “comprehensive”. The …