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Jim ReillyJim Reilly, managing partner with TRG Health Care Solutions, explains that CMS learned a few things from its first foray into bundled payments. Having worked with all five participants in the Acute Care Episode (ACE) pilot a few years back, Reilly is ideally positioned to identify the three key benefits of participation in the upcoming CMS bundled payment initiative. But in order for episodic payments, bundled pricing and other alternative payment methodologies to be implemented successfully a key organizational process must take place, Reilly notes.

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