Several hospitals have called on the CMS to turn Obama-era bundled-payment initiatives for cardiac and orthopedic care into voluntary programs, as they don’t have the financial resources to invest in the changes.
The CMS last month delayed the effective dates of four new payment models for certain cardiac and orthopedic conditions from July 1 until Oct. 1, 2017, and asked for input on whether they should be delayed even further until Jan. 1, 2018.
