Bundled Payments
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CMS is moving bundled payments from episodic pilots toward a broader mandatory accountability infrastructure, with TEAM creating near-term pressure on hospitals, orthopedic groups, and post-acute partners to manage surgical episodes while CJR-X signals a longer runway toward expanded joint-replacement accountability by 2028. The strategic tension for providers is that bundled-payment readiness now requires tighter post-acute steering, home health integration, data infrastructure, and compliance capacity, even as hospitals face rising administrative burden from mandatory VBP programs; home health agencies are positioning TEAM as an opening to prove downstream value in episode cost and quality performance (TEAM and home health opportunity, CJR-X readiness). Commercial actors are also extending bundled-payment logic beyond Medicare orthopedics into high-cost specialty care, including oncology therapies, reinforcing that episode-based contracting is becoming a cross-market strategy rather than a CMS-only payment experiment.
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