Year 1 of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced Model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation launched the Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) program for hospitals in October 2018. Information is needed about the effects of the program on health care utilization and Medicare payments.

Methods

We conducted a modified segmented regression analysis using Medicare claims and including patients with discharge dates from January 2017 through September 2019 to assess differences between BPCI-A participants and two control groups: hospitals that never joined the BPCI-A program (nonjoining hospitals) and hospitals that joined the BPCI-A program in January 2020, after the conclusion of the intervention period (late-joining hospitals). The primary outcomes were the differences in changes in

SUBMITTER: Joynt Maddox KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8388187 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature