http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/health-policy-leaders-to-hhs-more-bundled-payment-models-please/421562/

- The Center for American Progress (CAP) and other health policy leaders issued a joint letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell advocating further advancement in Medicare payment reform.
- The signatories seek additional mandatory bundled payment demonstrations, arguing they would show stakeholders — including hospitals, physicians, device manufacturers, skilled nursing facilities, and home healthcare agencies — that aggressive expansion is coming for bundled payments and other payment reforms.
- CAP has long advocated for Medicare to expand its most successful bundled payment models, including its Acute Care Episode demonstration project.
Click to access Mandatory-bundled-payment-letter.pdf