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A Cardiovascular Consulting Blog from CFA
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a final rule released Thursday, November 30, 2017, closed the loop on its proposed cancellation of the cardiac bundled payment models.
At this time of year, most of our country takes time to travel, be with family and friends and to give thanks for the blessings afforded them. We wish all of you safe travels and a rich and blessed Thanksgiving.
If you follow CFA’s blogs, you hopefully will have read our current and continuing series on low-volume cardiac surgery programs and the challenges they face in the evolving era of value-based healthcare (refer to Low-volume Surgery Programs: Parts One through Five).
In our continuing series on low-volume cardiac surgery program issues and strategies, we thought it would be beneficial to present a conceptually simple and straightforward methodology and approach to “unwinding” a program should that be the decision of hospital management and clinicians.
We have written extensively on the issue of low-volume cardiac surgery and the challenges faced by these programs in today’s competitive environment. There are many options available to these programs to boost their volume, ranging from reinvestment in program development efforts all the way to divestiture or closure if all else fails.
In our continuing series on low-volume cardiac surgery programs, we now incorporate the Center of Excellence (COE) concept into our discussions.
Cardiac Services Expansion: More Hospitals Are Taking a Second Look
In Part 1 one of this blog we discussed the key economic, demographic, technological and financial forces driving a growing interest by hospitals and health systems to develop new or expanded cardiac services.
Pending regulatory review, CMS has proposed cancelling the cardiac and expanded joint replacement bundled payment models. The rule, which was sent to the Office of Management and Budget last week, would...