Bundled Payments
News and Advocacy
- BPCI Advanced Model extended for two years, and will now conclude on December 31, 2025
- CMMI Announces Major Changes for Model Year 4 (2021) BPCI-A Participants
- CMS Proposes Changes, Extension of CJR Model
- NAACOS submits comments on 2020 Proposed CJR Model Rule
- NAACOS submits comments on the proposed Radiation Oncology Model and ESRD Treatment Choices Model
- CMS releases final rule cancelling cardiac episode payment models along with technical fact sheet
- NAACOS sends letter in support of cancellation of Episode Payment Model rule
- NAACOS letter to CMS details concerns with complexity and lack of data on overlapping APMs
- NAACOS submits comments to PTAC on the importance of protecting the goals of population health focused delivery models
- NAACOS outlines concerns regarding ACO overlap with bundled payment models in response to CMS interim final rule delaying new cardiac episodes
- NAACOS position statement on episode payment models
- CMS CJR Final Rule Released on Monday, November 16, 2015
- CMS Releases CJR Fact Sheet
- NAACOS Comments on Release of CMS CJR Final Rule
- NAACOS Comments on CJR proposed rule
- CMS finalizes Episode Payment rule creating new bundled payment model for cardiac services. See the CMS fact sheet on this announcement here.
- NAACOS submits comments to CMS on their proposed bundled payment rule, which would introduce a new mandatory cardiac bundled payment program, expand the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model and discusses a possible future voluntary bundled payment program building off of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative (BPCI)
- NAACOS sends letter to CMS urging caution in implementing new bundled payment initiatives
- New England Journal of Medicine article When Payment Systems Collide, details concerns about overlap or ACOs and Bundled Payments
- NAACOS and ACO Community Send Letter to CMS Voicing Concerns about Overlap of Bundles and ACOs
- CMS responds to our letter outlining concerns about the overlap of Bundles and ACOs
- NAACOS response to Wall Street Journal Commentary favoring bundled payment over ACOs
Resources
- NAACOS Review of 2020 Proposed CJR Rule

- NAACOS Medicare ACO-APM Overlap Chart

- Understanding BPCI-A and MSSP Reconciliation
- NAACOS summary of CMS’s BPCI Advanced program
- NAACOS summary of final rule cancelling cardiac EPMs and making changes to CJR
- NAACOS Overview of CJR Model
- Overview of the CMS proposed rule expanding episode payment models, including a new cardiac bundled payment
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