D August Oddleifson, DaJuanicia N Holmes, Brooke Alhanti, Xiao Xu, Paul A Heidenreich, Rishi K Wadhera, Larry A Allen, Stephen J Greene, Gregg C Fonarow, Erica S Spatz, Nihar R Desai
IMPORTANCE: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) program was launched in 2013 with a goal to improve care quality while lowering costs to Medicare. OBJECTIVE: To compare changes in the quality and outcomes of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure according to hospital participation in the BPCI program. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This cross-sectional study used a difference-in-difference approach to evaluate the BPCI program in 18 BPCI hospitals vs 211 same-state non-BPCI hospitals for various process-of-care measures and outcomes using American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure registry and CMS Medicare claims data from November 1, 2008, to August 31, 2018...
January 3, 2024: JAMA Cardiology