News Report | August 4, 2019
CMS To No Longer Exclude Medicare ACOs From BPCI Advanced Savings
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has changed how it will manage the overlap between the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced program and the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) accountable care organizations (ACOs). For Model Year 3, which starts on January 1, 2020, provider organizations participating in both an Enhanced ACO (Track 3) and BPCI Advanced (BPCI-A), when they treat a beneficiary receiving services in a BPCI Advanced bundle, the reconciliation will attribute the beneficiary to the owner of the bundle, not to the ACO. Previously, overlap beneficiaries were attributed to the ACO.
The revision . . .