Predictors of Success in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospitals participating in Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) program were incented to reduce Medicare payments for episodes of care.

Objective

To identify factors that influenced whether or not hospitals were able to save in the BPCI program, how the cost of different services changed to produce those savings, and if "savers" had lower or decreased quality of care.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Participants

BPCI-participating hospitals.

Main measures

We designated hospitals that met the program goal of decreasing costs by at least 2% from baseline in average Medicare payments per 90-day episode as "savers." We used regression models to determine condition-level, patient-level, hospital-level, and market-level charact

SUBMITTER: Wolfe JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8858349 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature