The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of our healthcare system. That’s true for participants in the Oncology Care Model and Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced programs. Organizations in these programs had to make important decisions regarding the overlap of their program performance periods with the COVID-19 public health emergency. Several trends have begun to emerge from these choices. Here’s what DataGen’s analysts have seen from the data: BPCIA For performance periods that overlapped with the PHE, BPCIA participants had to decide if they would remove all upside and downside risk, or just remove COVID-19 patients from their reconciliation. From our analysis, it appears that decisions were balanced between these two options. We are not aware of any episode initiators who chose to continue their reconciliations as usual with no exclusions at all. Here’s what we believe drove those decisions: Opting out of the performance period reconciliation entirely by removing