For some health care providers, a pair of recent announcements made by the Obama Administration to implement mandatory alternative payment models (APMs) for home health value-based purchasing and bundled payments for hip and...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
Health care reform brought about sweeping changes to our nation's health-care system. Much of the commentary has been focused on the medicaid expansion and the individual coverage mandate, punctuated by the U.S. Supreme Court...more