Changes in Racial Equity Associated With Participation in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Program.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Medicare alternative payment models are designed to incentivize cost reduction and quality improvement, but there are no requirements established for evaluating the outcomes of the Medicare populations.

Objective

To examine whether participation in the Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) program was associated with narrowing or widening of Black and White racial inequities in outcomes and access.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective cohort alternative payment models on equity and quality for disadvantaged populations were studied between April 6, 2021, and August 28, 2022, in US hospitals. Black and White Medicare beneficiaries admitted for any of the 29 inpatient conditions in the BPCI-A program between January 1

SUBMITTER: Hammond G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9855294 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature