Healthcare

Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) is one of the latest evolutions of value payment methodologies to come from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The roots of BPCI-A are in the original bundled payment demonstration project, the Acute Care Episodes (ACE) program of 2009, which shares an underlying theme that a single, bundled payment for all providers for a defined episode of care will promote efficiency of care, coordination of care and improvement in the quality of care. CMS would like to see higher quality performance paired with lower expenditures in these identified patient populations.