Though CMS backs away from mandatory bundling . . .

Voluntary Bundled Pay Participation Expected To Expand Among Large Hospital Systems

By Ariel Cohen / August 18, 2017 at 6:38 PM
Despite proposing to downsize the mandatory Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement demonstration and cancel the Episode Payment Models and Cardiac Rehabilitation models without proposing replacements, experts do not believe CMS will be able to roll back bundled payments as an alternative payment model, and they expect the agency to move toward voluntary bundles created with more input from physicians and hospitals. Large hospitals are also expected to continue implementing voluntary bundling. On Tuesday (Aug. 15) CMS proposed to reduce the...


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