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Association of Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative with patient‐reported outcomes

Matthew J. Trombley PhD, Sean R. McClellan PhD, Daver C. Kahvecioglu PhD, Qian Gu PhD, Andrea Hassol MSPH, Alisha H. Creel PhD, Susan M. Joy MPH, MA, Brian W. Waldersen MD, MPH, Christine Ogbue Dr.PH, MPH

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April 30, 2019

To determine whether Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative affected patient-reported measures of quality, Abt and partners assessed a total of nearly 60,000 patients treated by BPCI and comparison hospitals. We evaluated differences in patient-reported measures of care experience as well as changes in functional status.