by MedBen Analytics | Sep 23, 2019 | Announcements, Bundled Payments, Commerical Bundled Payments, MedBen, MedBen Analytics, Value-Based Care
In addition to providing bundled payment insights to health care systems, MedBen offers a wide variety of benefit solutions… and on the newly revamped MedBen.com website, you can see for yourself why we’re “the benefits partner that employers...
by MedBen Analytics | Sep 4, 2019 | Bundled Payments, CJR, CMS, Data Organization, Data Usage, MedBen Analytics, Medicare, Post-Acute Care, Research
A new University of Michigan study reveals that Medicare spends about $60 billion more per year on post-hospital care than private insurance. It’s a disparity that demonstrates the urgent need to find sensible alternatives to the standard fee-for-service...
by MedBen Analytics | Aug 26, 2019 | Bundled Payments, MedBen Analytics, Reports
As health care economics evolve, bundled payments will be the standard for how reimbursements work – and providers not knowledgeable about how they work risk falling behind. The MedBen Analytics software platform gathers, organizes and helps interpret the data that...
by MedBen Analytics | Aug 12, 2019 | Bundled Payments, Cancer, CJR, CMS, Mandatory Participation, MedBen Analytics, Radiation Oncology
Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposal for a new mandatory radiation oncology (RO) bundled payment model to begin in early 2020. As MedBen Analytics reported after the announcement, the 5-year model would use Medicare...
by MedBen Analytics | Jul 29, 2019 | Announcements, Bundled Payments, CJR, CMS, Mandatory Participation, MedBen Analytics, Reconciliation reports
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced earlier this month that it expected to release Performance Year 3 (PY3) reconciliation payments for Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) participants on July 25 to hospitals that did not submit...
by MedBen Analytics | Jul 15, 2019 | Announcements, Bundled Payments, Cancer, CMS, Mandatory Participation, MedBen Analytics, Radiation Oncology, Value-Based Care
On July 10, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new radiation oncology model to be introduced in early 2020. The model proposal states that CMS would make bundled payments to cover 90-day episodes of radiotherapy services for 17 types of...