Nov 14, 2019 | Annual Meeting, Bundled Payments, CMS
The AAHKS Keynote Session – AAHKS Town Hall Meeting this year featured discussion about important issues related to site of service, including changes to inpatient, outpatient and ASC care, as well as the impact of the CMS Two-Midnight rule on care delivery. Panelists...
Apr 25, 2019 | Bundled Payments, CMS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the second application period for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI Advanced). Participants selected for the second cohort will start Model Year 3, beginning on January 1,...
Jun 8, 2018 | Bundled Payments, CMS
“Hospitals and physician groups that want to participate in the CMS’ new Medicare bundled-payment demonstration are sweating because the agency is behind schedule in giving providers the claims data they need to decide which care bundles to select,” reported...
Aug 18, 2017 | Bundled Payments, CMS
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new proposed rule that would reduce the number of mandatory geographic areas participating in the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model from 67 to 34 and allow the remaining 33 to opt-in to...
Apr 14, 2017 | Bundled Payments, CMS, Committees and Task Forces
On the day after Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price announced that he wants physicians to “step up and recommend more payment alternatives to fee-for-service Medicare,” AAHKS submitted a letter of intent, which had already been in the works, to ensure AAHKS...
Feb 17, 2017 | Bundled Payments, Research
The Altarum Institute published a study last week stating that BPCI did not lead to a statistically significant rise in volume of total joint replacement procedures at participating hospitals. Referencing a recent BPCI study published in JAMA, the study’s authors...
