Within BPCI, there are four models. Model 4 focuses on the inpatient stay, and hospitals will assume responsibility for all related readmissions. Hospitals can select which diagnosis-related groups they want to be included in the bundled payments, such as pacemaker insertion, cervical spinal fusion, congestive heart failure, sepsis, major hip/knee replacements and several others.
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