With increasing prevalence of alternative payment models, CMS and commercial payers are increasingly looking for a sustainable model for growth that is a win-win for the payer-provider community. Bundled payments and episodes of care models appear to not only meet this threshold of bending the cost curves, but also align incentives between providers and consumers. In this discussion, we will be exploring how population health and bundled payments models are implemented inside large health systems and administrative challenges that come with them.
The speakers, content managers, and planners from Cerner Corporation do not have any relevant financial interests to disclose.