As the U.S. healthcare industry shifts from the current fee-for-service model to one focused on value, outcomes and better patient experiences, bundled healthcare is already proving its merit. Bundled ...

Bundled payments and accountable care organizations have emerged as favored alternative payment models within Medicare. However, overlap between the two models could lead to unintended consequences, ...

A Medicare program that began on April 1 requires about 800 hospitals to “bundle” payments for knee and hip replacements. Long in the making, this effort should point the way to more coordinated, ...

Bundled payment initiatives are a growing form of value-based payment. The use of bundled payments can align reimbursement with the health care triple aim of improving experience of care, improving ...

Compliance with a relaxed "care bundle" was associated with lower 30-day mortality and shorter median hospital stays among children with sepsis, according to interim data from the Improving Pediatric ...

Bundled payments are powerful tools for shifting clinician behavior, for good and for bad. Evidence-based strategies must be used to ensure that shifts in clinician behavior are aligned with the ...

Using a system for primary care management of patients with diabetes may reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, and retinopathy over a 3-year period. A parallel pre-post observational ...

The nation's largest insurer, UnitedHealthcare, has launched a nationwide bundled-payment model for maternity care, closely following the lead of Cigna and Humana, which have had the option since ...

Two of the most upsetting things for patients are the high cost of health care and the surprise — sometimes indecipherable, sometimes nonstop — hospital bills. But something known as “bundled medical ...

Findings from this multicenter randomized controlled trial showed that the transition bundle was associated with a lower risk of 7-day and 30-day hospital readmission from chronic obstructive ...

I have seen many references to "bundles" lately. What are bundles, and how can they be used to prevent infection in the ICU setting? To prevent central line catheter-associated infections, the bundle ...