Massachusetts’ McKesson & Connecticut’s HCI3 Form Partnership To Support Large-Scale Bundled Payment Programs

Circle Connections: Mergers & Acquisitions McKesson and the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) have entered into an agreement that will support healthcare organizations� growing interest in bundling payments for episodes of care, a promising alternative to fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement for healthcare services. Bundled payments seek to move payers and providers to a value-based system in which reimbursement supports evidence-based best practices with quality outcomes rather than volume-based delivery, which in turn lowers overall costs by avoiding preventable complications. The agreement will combine McKesson Episode Management�, software that automates complex bundled payment programs of all . . .