On October 13, 2022, CMS announced it will extend the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI Advanced) for two years, with the opportunity for new entities to join the model beginning in 2024. CMS also...more
On January 11, 2018, CMS announced a new voluntary episode payment model (bundled payments for care improvement advanced–BPCI Advanced) that will test a new iteration of bundled payment for the following thirty-two (32)...more
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released details on the much-anticipated new version of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) payment model, which will be known as BPCI Advanced. Like...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a final rule that cancels the Episode Payment Models (EPMs) and the Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) incentive payment model, each of which were slated to begin...more
Summary - McDermott’s Managing the Transition to Transformation series is designed to help health systems and other health care industry leaders address the many challenges presented by the transformation in payment and...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has traditionally paid health care providers separately for each of the individual services they furnish to beneficiaries for a single illness or course of treatment. This...more
On July 14, 2015, CMS released a proposed rule regarding a new, alternative payment model: the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CCJR) program. Modeled in large part on the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI)...more
On January 31, 2013, CMS announced the organizations that will be participating in its Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative. Established under CMS’s innovation authority provided for in the Patient...more
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the health care organizations chosen to participate in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BCPI) Initiative. The BCPI Initiative represents a...more