title: Value-based purchasing and bundled payments.
abstract: Bundled Medicare payments and value-based purchasing are intended to create integrated delivery systems that are more accountable to their communities and to make providers assume greater financial risk. Here's what hospitals should know.
authors.forename: Lee Ann
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Jarousse
mesh_terms: D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010346:Patient Care Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive / Q000458:organization & administration; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States