An Empirical Framework for Breast Screening Bundled Payments

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• 作者：Danny R. Hughes ; PhD^a ; ^b ; ^{dhughes@neimanhpi.org} ; Miao Jiang ; PhD^a ; ^b ; Geraldine McGinty ; MD ; MBA^c ; Sanjay K. Shetty ; MD ; MBA^d ; Richard Duszak ; MD^a ; ^e
• 关键词：Bundled payments ; alternative payment models ; mammography ; cancer screening ; breast cancer
• 刊名：Journal of the American College of Radiology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：14
• 期：1
• 页码：17-23.e1
• 全文大小：133 K
• 卷排序：14

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In an effort to curb health care costs and improve the quality of care, bundled payment models are becoming increasingly adopted, but to date, they have focused primarily on treatment episodes and primary care providers. To achieve current Medicare goals of transitioning fee-for-service payments to alternative payment models, however, a broader range of patient episodes and specialty physicians will need opportunities to participate. The authors explore breast cancer screening episodes as one such opportunity.MethodsThe authors developed a bundled payment model for breast cancer screening and calibrated it using both a national sample of retrospective Medicare claims data and data from a private health system. The model includes alternative screening episode definitions, methods for calibrating prices, and an examination of risk and can serve as a general framework on which other cancer screening bundles could be crafted.ResultsThe utilization of services associated with breast cancer screening and diagnosis is stable over time. The inclusion of high-risk patients in breast screening bundles did not cause substantial changes in estimated bundle prices. However, prices are sensitive to the choice of services included in the bundle.ConclusionsBreast cancer screening may provide a mechanism to expand the use of bundled payments in radiology and could serve as a framework for other episodic specialty bundles. Because screening bundles include costs for follow-up diagnostic imaging in addition to the initial screening mammographic examination, patient adherence to screening guidelines may improve, which may have profound effects on public health.