As hospitals and physician groups rush to meet the March 12, 2018 deadline for the voluntary BPCI Advanced model applications, post-acute care and homecare providers should start prepping. This new program is part of CMS’s efforts to increase opportunities for providers and improve care — it won’t go away anytime soon.
BPCI Advanced “brings everybody to the table,” Bankston said, adding that in the “fee-for-service world, providers are still working in their different silos.” The challenge is, in the shift to value-based care, providers need to manage change across all levels of the organization and operationalize incentives.
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