Premier Provides Recommendations on Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Advanced Changed
Premier and seven other organizations offered recommendations to the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services on recent changes to the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced model. The recommendations are designed to help healthcare providers remain in the model while continuing to engage in the COVID-19 pandemic response. The groups urged CMS to:
Delay the changes for one year, or at a minimum, allow participants an opportunity to remove service line groups or leave the program at the end of the first performance period in model year 4;
Provide the COVID-19 mitigation policies to any performance period in which there is a designated public health emergency; and
Limit clinical service line groups to clinically similar episodes and allow episodes without a clinically relevant group to be selected individually.
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Premier, Inc. is a leading technology-driven healthcare improvement company. Playing a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, Premier unites providers, suppliers and payers to make healthcare better with national scale, smarter with actionable intelligence and faster with novel technologies. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier offers integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, advisory services and other solutions in service of our mission to improve the health of communities. Please visit Premier’s news site at www.premierinc.com; as well as X, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Premier’s blog for more information about the Company.
