Data and Analytics for Bundled Payments

Bob Kelley, SVP Healthcare Analytics, Thomson Reuters. This presentation describes an analytical approach to understanding and developing effective payment bundles. Bob highlights the challenges and importance of analytics and an objective, quantitative view in creating and pricing acute care bundles, and explores the additional complexity of chronic care bundles. Using specific examples, he walks through the key steps to identifying the cost and variation of components and services included in a bundle; assesses how effectively care is delivered today; and, evaluates current market pricing of the components and vulnerabilities to new payment models.