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Lessons from the Field: Payment Innovation and Clinical Transformation

An overview of the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement, citing the challenges experienced by both participants and CMS, and sharing lessons learned by New York-Presbyterian Hospital and its data analytics partner, DataGen.

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