A "bundled" payment covers a
defined package of services delivered by two or more providers during a
single episode of care or over a specific period of time. Nine out of
nineteen provider-payer pairs studied by Bailit Health Purchasing, LLC
have fully operationalized at least one bundled payment. Two more pairs
are conducting observational pilots and three others have embarked on
developing a bundled payment program.
The Healthcare Incentives
Improvement Institute (HCI3) asked Bailit to examine the status of
bundled payments in 2011, and then to update the results this year.
Overall, as reported in HCI3’s Issue Brief “Bundled Payments One Year Later: An Update on the Status of Implementations and Operational Findings—May 30, 2013,”
payer and provider pairs have successfully brought bundled payments
online and are working toward making them a permanent health care
financing change, although challenges remain.
The Issue Brief illustrates
both the achievements and the challenges through...
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