The following are stories regarding bundled payments over the past month, beginning with the most recent.
1. CMS extended the application window for facilities hoping to enroll in the bundled payments program. Starting Feb. 14, CMS opened a new 60-day window for applicants to enroll.
2. Albany, N.Y.-based DataGen has signed two contracts with the Association of American Medical Colleges and Bronx, N.Y.-based Montefiore Medical Center in which the analytics company will provide support to hospitals regarding CMS' Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative.
3. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina will include hip replacement surgeries in its bundled payment project.
4. Booz & Co. released a whitepaper discussing the pros and cons of bundled payments in cancer care and offered four unanswered questions involved with cancer care bundling. The unanswered questions ask what treatments can or should be bundled, will a "care warranty" be provided to ensure adequate care, will bundled care payments survive without Medicare participation and will bundled products slow growth and innovation in treatments?
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