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NCHC Writer Update at May 21, 2023

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EVENT INFORMATION:

EPISODIC BUNDLED PAYMENT: A CRITICAL NEXT STEP IN HEALTH CARE PAYMENT REFORM

10:00 AM–11:30 AM ESTRayburn House Office Building, Room 2456

SPEAKERS

Blair Childs, Senior Vice President, Premier Healthcare Alliance: Premier: Improving Quality While Safely Reducing Costs

Eric Berger, President and CEO, Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare: Improving Clinical Outcomes and Program Efficiency in a Pro-Patient Manner

Topher Spiro, Vice President of Health Policy, Center for American Progress: Medicare’s Acute Care Episode Program

SUMMARY

Health care experts have concluded that every year billions of dollars are wasted and enormous patient harm can occur due to a lack of coordination among providers during and after a hospitalization. Today, Medicare is testing approaches that replace traditional fee-for-service payments with bundled payments that incentivize hospitals and post-acute providers to work together. In fact, we already know from previous Medicare demonstrations that episodic bundling does improve quality and drive down costs.

Is it time to move forward more aggressively with bundled payment in Medicare? The speakers at this event believe it is, and each has proposed dramatic expansions of this innovative approach to payment reform.