The CMS on Thursday announced that more than 450 healthcare organizations will participate in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, a payment model program created in the healthcare reform law to test whether bundling payments for services in a single episode of care can improve quality and lower costs.
Those selected organizations represent a wide range of healthcare providers—including not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals, academic medical centers, physician-owned facilities and post-acute providers—that were chosen by the CMS either as awardees for Model 1 starting in April, or as participants for the first phase of models 2, 3 and 4 that begins with Thursday's announcement.
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Source: ModernHealthcare.com
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