A recent blog post by ECG Management Consultants breakds down the structure and importance of a clinical effectiveness team within hospitals and health systems.
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on ECG's website.
The first performance period for the CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) program began on October 1, 2018. Prior to this, organizations participating in the program likely focused their efforts on analyzing data from CMS, selecting episodes, evaluating strategic implications, and completing their applications. Now with the program having started, if you are a BPCI-A participant, you may be wondering how you can operationalize your bundled payment initiatives to position your organization for success.
It is expected that most of the efforts for organizations in BPCI-A will focus on clinical care redesign both in the acute and post-acute settings. Given the breadth and scope of clinical episodes available through BPCI-A (as well as many other commercial bundled payments programs), your organization should focus on facilitating coordination and collaboration among key stakeholders that are helping to implement various clinical care redesign initiatives. Click here to continue>>
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