January 2018

On January 11, 2018, CMS announced a new voluntary episode payment model (bundled payments for care improvement advanced–BPCI Advanced) that will test a new iteration of bundled payment for the following thirty-two (32) clinical episodes:

29 Inpatient Clinical Episodes

Acute myocardial infarction

Back & neck except spinal fusion

Cardiac arrhythmia

Cardiac defibrillator

Cardiac valve

Cellulitis