The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative was developed by the Center
for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation with the goals of lowering health care expenditures
while improving quality through enhanced coordination of services across different
settings of care.
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Participating organizations enter into contractual arrangements where a single reimbursement
is made from Medicare that must be divided among all providers involved in an episode
of care. However, participation in BPCI is voluntary, and it is possible that early
participants were already high-performing providers. The objective of this study was
to compare baseline 30-day rehospitalization rates of patients receiving post-acute
care in nursing homes participating in BPCI to the rates in nursing homes that were
not participating in the initiative. There are 4 BPCI models. We focused on Model
3—implemented in the last quarter of 2013—where episodes are initiated by the start
of post-acute care following hospital discharge.- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Initiative: General information.
innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/bundled-payments/
Date accessed: March 17, 2017
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References
- Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Initiative: General information.(Available at:)innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/bundled-payments/Date accessed: March 17, 2017
- Shaping Long Term Care in America Project at Brown University funded in part by the National Institute on Aging (1P01AG027296).(Available at:)http://ltcfocus.org/Date accessed: January 5, 2018
- Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Initiative: BPCI Model 3: Retrospective Post Acute Care Only.(Available at:)https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/BPCI-Model-3/index.htmlDate accessed: March 17, 2018
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Published online: July 11, 2018
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