The Impact Of Bundled Payment On Health Care Spending, Utilization, And Quality: A Systematic Review.

Agarwal R, Liao JM, Gupta A, Navathe AS. The Impact Of Bundled Payment On Health Care Spending, Utilization, And Quality: A Systematic Review. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2020 Jan 1; 39(1):50-57.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has promoted bundled payment programs nationwide as one of its flagship value-based payment reforms. Under bundled payment, providers assume accountability for the quality and costs of care delivered during an episode of care. We performed a systematic review of the impact of three CMS bundled payment programs on spending, utilization, and quality outcomes. The three programs were the Acute Care Episode Demonstration, the voluntary Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, and the mandatory Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model. Twenty studies that we identified through search and screening processes showed that bundled payment maintains or improves quality while lowering costs for lower extremity joint replacement, but not for other conditions or procedures. Our review also suggests that policy makers should account for patient-level heterogeneity and include risk stratification for specific conditions in emerging bundled payment programs.