Bundled Payment Moves from Pilots to Scaled Programs, Fifth National Bundled Payment Summit Slated for June 3-5 in Washington

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Bundled payment initiatives are making headway in the U.S. as a key payment approach to improve health care quality and lower costs. Sharing successful strategies for how to best engage consumers in bundled payment initiatives, data and analytics, risk arrangements, and transparency implementing contracts for high-cost procedures and conditions, will be among the areas of focus at the Fifth National Bundled Payment Summit.

Being held June 3-5 in Washington, this year features two pre-conference sessions, four afternoon track sessions and is also available via live webcast. It also includes the first Innovation Showcase, which features vendors focused on supporting payers or providers as well as researchers exploring the effects of bundled payment initiatives.

"As bundled payments move from pilots to full-blown implementations and from a payer-led initiative to a payer-provider collaboration, providers are often taking the lead," said Francois de Brantes, executive director of the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI³), the Summit's lead sponsor. "While bundled payments are proliferating, there continues to be much experimentation in defining the boundaries of episodes and the implications on financial risk. The Summit will address these issues with presentations from national, state and local leaders engaged in implementing payment and delivery system reform. This event offers high content and a learning experience so everyone can get smarter, faster, on what works."

Keynote speakers:

• Jason Helgerson, MPP, State Medicaid Director, Deputy Commissioner, State of New York, Department of Health
• Rahul Rajkumar, MD, JD, Acting Deputy Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Earl P. Steinberg, MD, MPP, CEO, xG Health Solutions, EVP of Innovation & Dissemination, Geisinger Health System

For additional information or to register for the Summit, please visit http://www.bundledpaymentsummit.com/.

About Health Care Conference Administrators, LLC
Health Care Conference Administrators, LLC (HCCA) designs, produces, organizes and administers conferences, trade shows, courses, customized learning and education, and internet-based programming, alone, or in joint venture with or on behalf of sponsoring organizations. HCCA seeks to illuminate complex issues of health care practice and policy by bringing together leading-edge doers and thinkers - from operations to academia, from clinical practice to corporate management, from Main Street to Wall Street and from patient to politician. Since 1998, HCCA has offered conferences and symposia sponsored by over 150 associations, organizations and publications and attended by approximately 50,000 registrants.

About Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute™, Inc.
The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, Inc. (HCI³) is a not-for-profit organization that aims to create significant improvements in the quality and affordability of health care through evidence-based incentive programs and support of payment reform models. It is the umbrella organization for the Bridges to Excellence® program and PROMETHEUS Payment® model, as well the creator of episode of care, or Evidence-informed Case Rates (ECRs), definitions and the ECR Analytics®. Through these components, HCI³ offers a comprehensive package of solutions to employers, health plans and coalitions to improve the flawed incentives that currently permeate the U.S. health care system.

NOTE TO EDITORS: A limited number of passes are available for accredited media upon request.

Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130611/DC29941LOGO

SOURCE Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3)

Related Links

http://www.globalhealthcarellc.com