Bundled payment models assign a fixed, negotiated fee to cover a set of treatment services, encouraging providers to manage costs, while meeting high-quality care standards.
This resource provides guidance and templates to help organizations work with commercial payors to develop successful and compliant bundled payment and shared savings arrangements.
Though the strategy sounds simple, implementing a different way to pay for care across health systems and communities is a complex undertaking. This brief from Aligning Forces for Quality offers four steps that organizations considering a bundled payment pilot should follow.
In this Health Affairs blog post, Senior Program Officer Michael Painter discusses different RWJF-funded projects testing the bundled payment model.
This article from Health Affairs discusses how policy-makers must set base payment rates for episodes of care and update the rates over time to reflect changes in the costs of delivering care.
Created by the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, the PROMETHEUS model packages payment around a comprehensive episode of medical care that covers all patient services related to a single illness or condition. This results report provides qualitative and quantitative analyses of the pilot.
This issue brief from the Urban Institute presents a frank assessment of the merits and drawbacks of two payment models—bundled payments and global capitation—through a debate between Francois de Brantes and Robert Berenson.
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June 11, 2013 | Issue Brief
Local initiatives are showing how new methods for paying for health care can improve quality and control costs. This paper offers four steps that organizations considering a bundled payment pilot should follow.
January 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Issue brief examines ongoing bundled health care payment initiatives.
January 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Issue brief shows potential cost reduction with PROMETHEUS Payment® in total knee replacement.
September 4, 2013 | Issue Brief
This resource provides guidance and templates to help organizations work with commercial payors to develop successful and compliant bundled payment and shared savings arrangements.
September 1, 2012 | Report/Issue Brief
This issue brief presents a frank assessment of the merits and drawbacks of two payment models, bundled payments and global capitation, through a debate between Francois de Brantes and Robert Berenson.
July 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Updates from the PROMETHEUS Payment Initiative and pilot sites.
September 4, 2009 | Issue Brief
This brief explains Evidence-informed Case Rates (ECRs), the core element of the PROMETHEUS Payment model.
June 10, 2009 | Issue Brief
This brief explains the three essential elements of PROMETHEUS Payment and how it offers a realistic, rational and sustainable blueprint for a new health care payment system.