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CMS Pushes Back Cardio, Ortho Bundled-Pay Models

 
• By Sue Darcey

Trump's new CMS Chief Seema Verma has only been in place for a week, but an agency decision to delay implementation of two bundled-payment initiatives – one on cardiac care and one on joint replacements – underscores the administration's wariness of mandatory value-based payment models.

A CMS delay of two Affordable Care Act-inspired alternative bundled-payment plans for cardiac care and joint replacement underscores the new administration's unfavorable position on mandatory alternative episode-of-care payment plans designed to replace Medicare fee-for-service.

In a March 21 notice, CMS says the start date for new bundled-payment models for orthopedic and cardiac...

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