How One Health System Mastered Bundled Payments

Healthcare Innovation Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland interviewed both Donna Sabol of St. Luke’s and Chris Murphy, a principal in the Strategy, Innovation, and Population Health area at Premier, and a senior Premier executive who works closely with the St. Luke’s leaders and the leaders of other hospital-based organizations participating in bundled-payment programs, particularly those participating in the federal Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced) Model sponsored by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 

In the first article in a two-part series, Donna Sabol, R.N. of St. Luke’s University Health Network in Pennsylvania shares her system’s secrets of success around its bundled payment contracting.