Medicare Targets Avoidable Hospital Readmissions to Jumpstart Delivery Reform

Apr 17, 2009 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

Bundled Payment Demonstration Project Changes How Labs Would Be Paid Efforts in the nation’s capital to reform healthcare are still in the formative stage as the new President and the new Congress consider various approaches. Meanwhile, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) started the new year by launching pilots for a bundled-service payment scheme. Not only may this be the beginning of the end of the fee-for-service payment system, but it has important implications...
;