Bundled Payments

Momentum around bundled payments is shifting from procedure-based episodes toward longitudinal chronic-condition episodes, with Health Affairs laying out design considerations for integrating chronic conditions into value-based payment models—an approach that would directly affect ACOs, specialty groups, and payers managing high-cost populations under CMS/CMMI models in the Trump administration. Commercial-market activity is also moving in that direction: Lantern and Marathon Health are launching an integrated model that pairs employer-facing advanced primary care with bundled specialty care navigation, signaling growing demand for tighter referral management, episode pricing, and total-cost accountability outside Medicare. [Health Affairs](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMizgFBVV95cUxQRVpGWW5UaXd2MEVfSEVjcndXV0JDc0lzbmZNTU1YbkhkMldsY1JUcTZjV09UejFubXY0cldrYUQxTWhlQXhnb2lyN1Y0LUFaYXppMWlUYlNDNTBzZzk5cHFuQmdleDNXRTBYbnUwMFNTTTJMQXBSekVHUWN5Y3ZaUE55WURQRGMxV25maHBKSEFYTVJKNTRnX0M5ZXIyN2c0YUJhQk9CdzVQcHhDaUFwczExVHpvSlhhOWNURDBLdUhm