UnitedHealth Launches Commercial Pilot Bundled Payment Program At MD Anderson Cancer Center

On December 15, 2014, UnitedHealthcare and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas announced the launch of a pilot bundled payment program for cancer treatment for commercially insured patients. The three-year pilot will involve up to 150 patients with newly diagnosed head and neck cancers who are enrolled in certain employer-sponsored benefit plans insured or administered by UnitedHealthcare.

The pilot will be conducted in MD Anderson’s Head and Neck Center. For the pilot, MD Anderson and UnitedHealthcare developed eight bundled payment models based on MD Anderson’s extensive mapping of the various complex tests, treatments, follow-up . . .