A Closer Look at BPCI Advanced

Shreyasi Deb, PhD, MBA

On Jan. 9, 2018, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) announced the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced) model, a new voluntary episode-based payment model that will test bundled payments for 32 clinical episodes (29 inpatient and three outpatient episodes), many of which are relevant for orthopaedic surgeons (Fig. 1). The model, which begins on Oct. 1, 2018, will run through Dec.