Bundled Payments

News and Advocacy

• CMS Proposes Changes, Extension of CJR Model
  
  
• 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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