CMS Says About 1,300 Groups Signed Up For New Bundled Pay Demo

CMS says about 1,300 entities have agreed to participate in the Trump administration's first advanced alternative pay model, the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced, and Christina Smith Ritter, the director of the Patient Care Models Group at CMS' innovation center, said that participation reflects an understanding that value-based pay is where the health care system is heading. "The response to the program was robust, and I think that reflects not necessarily a love for everything that's in the model,...