Premier Statement on Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model Participants

By Mark Hiller, Vice President of Bundled Payment Services, Premier

Premier commends the 1,299 entities that are joining the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced Model. We are especially pleased to congratulate the non-convener organizations we’ve worked with over the past months to successfully apply to the program. As an advisor to providers in BPCI Advanced, the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model and the Oncology Care Model, Premier has worked with hundreds of hospitals and physician groups across the nation to improve costs and patient outcomes.

Building on the BPCI model, BPCI Advanced supports participation as an alternative payment model under MACRA’s Quality Payment Program (QPP). Participation enables qualifying eligible clinicians to earn the QPP’s 5 percent bonus. We have found that bundled payments enable aligned incentives to innovate the care delivery process, reduce costs, and improve quality and patient satisfaction. BPCI Advanced provides a means to engage specialists in population-based efforts.

The launch of BPCI Advanced signals CMS’ commitment to value-based care delivery initiatives, which Premier strongly supports. We look forward to continuing our work with CMS and Premier members on value-based care delivery improvement efforts.