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Medicare’s bundled payment programs are in an opportune position to produce additional savings and create a more cost-effective public payer program with certain revisions, a new white paper from USC Brookings explains.
CMS’s current bundled payment programs would achieve greater cost effectiveness by extending acute hospital reimbursement and hospital-based bundled payment episodes, argued John A. Romney, associate professor at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California and Paul B. Ginsburg, the director of the Center for Health Policy at USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.
CMS operates several bundled payment programs through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) that addresses different care needs and episodes of payment.