The Power Of Bundled Rates

In the face of big policy unknowns in health and human service, it appears that one practice is likely to remain with us – reimbursing service provider organizations for value from a wide array of value-based reimbursement models. And the discussion at last week’s 2017 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute demonstrated that there is considerable momentum in that direction – see The Value Train Has Left The Station, Building The ‘Next Generation’ Behavioral & Social Service ACO, and Where Are We On The Path To Value-Based Reimbursement?.

Supporting that discussion are two recent studies that I found striking – both . . .