Bundled Payment for Cardiac Services: “Why would we want to do that?”
Following our posting of the blog announcing the CMS Final Rule ending the proposed Mandatory Cardiac Bundled Payment initiative posted on December 5, 2017, a little over one month later, CMS announced its new voluntary bundled payment model (see CMS Announces New Voluntary Bundled Payment Model for Ten In- and Out-Patient Cardiac Clinical Events, posted January 10, 2018.)