Larry explains why he is bullish on bundled payments, and why he is urging all hospitals and physicians to begin preparing for them.

The numbers are staggering! Larry takes a close look at the costs—monetary and human—of administrative burden and regulatory requirements in health care today.

As Larry has noted many times, we are in an era of unprecedented change in healthcare. Regardless of your opinion on the pace and type of change, it’s hard to argue that there has ever been a greater need for hospitals and their physician partners to collaborate and innovate together. This remains an area of great challenge and opportunity. In this week’s blog post, Larry asks readers to take a 7-question survey to determine the key attributes of hospital-physician alignment.

Just when we were no longer sure where episode payment models stood with CMS, it has announced that it is now conducting a one-month field testing for eight episode-based cost measures for MIPS. Larry shares all the details and provides a lot of resources for those who are impacted by this.

If you did not attend MedAxiom’s CV Transforum Fall’17 conference last week, and are involved in a cardiology practice or CV service line at a hospital, you may have some catching up to do. Larry shares some of the highlights of the conference in this week’s blog post.