Did BPCI work?
BPCI is Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative. For selected conditions, hospitals receive bundled payments that can include concurrent physician payments, post acute-care or other arrangements. The question is, does this payment approach improve quality and reduce cost? A study by Dummit et al. (2016) looked at lower extremity joint replacement at a BPCI-participating hospital. They found the…