The HMO paid experts like the NYU Medical Center's Dr . Newstead to define the components and length of each type of case, which it calls an " episode of care ."
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Wisconsin Investment Partners is an investor in Aver Informatics, software for bundled payments in which doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers accept a set amount for an episode of care, such as knee-replacement surgery.
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The bill would allow eligible veterans who opt for hospital care or medical services in a non-VA facility to receive such care or services through the completion of the episode of care, but for no longer than 60 days.
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It allows for the classification of the patient s reason for encounter ( RFE ), the problems / diagnosis managed, primary or general health care interventions, and the ordering of the data of the primary care session in an episode of care structure.
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In July 2009, a Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System in Massachusetts distinguished between episode-based payments ( i . e ., bundled payments ) and " global payments " that were defined as " fixed-dollar payments for the care that patients may receive in a given time period . . . plac [ ing ] providers at financial risk for both the occurrence of medical conditions and the management of those conditions . " Among the reasons for selecting global payment were its potential to reduce episodes of care and previous experience with this payment method in Massachusetts.
