Physician attitudes on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service's bundled payment initiative

Medicare Payment Bundling is one proposed reform of the Affordable Care Act.  The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed four models of payment bundling to be launched as pilot programs.  This study is a physician opinion survey on the affect of proposed models on clinical decision making. The survey was distributed to 65 physician, 22 complete responses were received. Physician responses indicate clinicians would make changes in their choice of Medicare Part B prescription drugs, decrease length of inpatient stay and modify diagnostic tests under the proposed models.   The study supports introducing financial risk to physicians under payment bundling will lead to physician behaviors that lower the cost of care per episode.