OVERVIEW
Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Innovation Center caused a renewed interest in bundled payments with its Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative resulting in over 500 participants testing bundled payments models. In the time since, the implementation of bundled payment continues to receive attention from policy makers and healthcare leaders as an option to lower healthcare costs and improve care quality. Self-funded employers and large providers have started, and continue, to implement bundled payment contracts for high cost procedures and conditions. Now, a year later, it is time to examine lessons learned and discuss new ideas to move the efforts forward.
The Bundled Payment Summit features keynote addresses from policy makers and national hospital and physician leaders with real-life implementation experience. The Summit will focus on successful strategies to implement bundled payment arrangements. In addition, focus will also be on consumers and how to best engage them in bundled payment initiatives. Other topics include implementation case studies, data & analytics, risk arrangements, employer perspectives, and transparency.
This year's Summit is the event to attend if you are considering bundled payment or involved in its implementation.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify the challenges associated with statewide bundled payment implementations.
- Understand best practices for analyzing data and reporting outcomes of bundled payment initiatives.
- Examine and analyze various case studies of current implementations.
- Understand the importance of the role transparency plays in initiatives.
- Identify how to engage consumers in bundled payment initiatives.
- Examine benefits and challenges associated with bundled payments in accountable care.
- Understand alternative approaches for adjudicating bundled payments.
- Explain the current issues related to insurance benefit design and bundled payment that must be considered for accurate payments.
- Understand the importance of quality metrics for successful implementation of episode bundled payment.
- Describe examples of quality measurement, including the key quality measurement domains (i.e., clinical, patient experience, safety, and outcomes).
- Provide examples of quality metrics for certain episode payment bundles.
- Understand the existing incentives in the current fee-for-service environment that exist for surgeons and other providers.
- Clarify the new objectives that must be met to succeed in episode bundled payment (i.e., fewer complications, lower implant device costs, etc.).
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Hospital CEOs and CFOs
- Medical Analytic Specialists
- Quality Improvement Executives
- Managed Care Executives
- Managed Care Contracting Experts
- Orthopedic Chiefs of Staff
- Surgeons
- Service Line Executives
- Health Plan Representatives
- Medical Directors
- Information Technology Vendors
- Health Policy Makers
- Academics
- Physicians and Physician Organizations
- Healthcare or Information Technology Media
