Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 192 / Tuesday, October 4, 2011 / Notices 61365 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[CMS–5504–N2] 

Bundled Payments for Care 

Improvement Initiative 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of extension of 

deadlines. 

SUMMARY: This notice extends the 

deadlines for the submission of the 

Bundled Payments for Care 

Improvement ‘‘Model 1’’ letters of intent 

and applications. 

DATES: Letter of Intent Submission 

Deadline: For Model 1 of this initiative, 

interested organizations must submit a 

nonbinding letter of intent by October 6, 

2011 as described on the CMS 

Innovation Center Web site http:// 

www.innovations.cms.gov/areas-offocus/patient-care-models/bundledpayments-for-care-improvement.html. 

Application Submission Deadline: For 

Model 1 of this initiative, applications 

must be received on or before November 

18, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Letter of Intents and 

Applications should be submitted 

electronically in searchable PDF format 

via encrypted e-mail to the following email address by the date specified in the 

DATES section of this notice: 

BundledPayments@cms.hhs.gov. 

Applications and appendices will only 

be accepted via e-mail. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

BundledPayments@cms.hhs.gov for 

questions regarding the application 

process of the Bundled Payments for 

Care Improvement initiative. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

We are committed to achieving the 

three-part aim of better health, better 

health care, and reduced expenditures 

through continuous improvement for 

Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s 

Health Insurance Program beneficiaries. 

Beneficiaries can experience improved 

health outcomes and patient experience 

when health care providers work in a 

coordinated and patient-centered 

manner. To this end, CMS is interested 

in partnering with providers who are 

working to redesign patient care to 

deliver these aims. Episode payment 

approaches that reward providers who 

take accountability for the three-part 

aim at the level of individual patient 

care for an episode are potential 

mechanisms for developing these 

partnerships. 

On August 23, 2011 we posted a 

request for applications (RFA) on the 

Innovation Center Web site. In addition, 

on August 25, 2011 we published a 

notice requesting applications in the 

Federal Register [76 FR 53137] to 

participate in the Bundled Payment for 

Care Improvement initiative. This 

initiative seeks proposals from health 

care providers who wish to align 

incentives between hospitals, 

physicians and nonphysician 

practitioners in order to better 

coordinate care throughout an episode 

of care. RFAs will test episode-based 

payment for acute care and associated 

post-acute care, using both retrospective 

and prospective bundled payment 

methods. The RFA requests applications 

to test models centered around acute 

care; these models will inform the 

design of future models, including care 

improvement for chronic conditions. 

For more details, see the RFA, which is 

available on the Innovation Center Web 

site at http://www.innovations.cms.gov/ 

areas-of-focus/patient-care-models/ 

bundled-payments-for-careimprovement.html. 

II. Provisions of the Notice 

The CMS Innovation Center has 

received much interest and a large 

number of inquiries about the BPCI 

initiative announced on the CMS Web 

site and in the Federal Register. There 

have also been many requests to allow 

for some additional time to prepare 

applications for Model 1 of the BPCI 

initiative. Based on the feedback from 

the community of potential applicants 

and our continued commitment to work 

in partnership with our stakeholders, 

the Innovation Center has modified the 

deadlines relating to Model 1 of the 

initiative: (1) The letter of intent will be 

due on or before October 6, 2011; and 

(2) the application will be due on or 

before November 18, 2011. 

We have announced the deadline 

extensions via the CMS Web site and via 

listserv. Therefore we also wanted to 

announce the extensions of the 

deadlines via the Federal Register. 

III. Collection of Information 

Requirements 

Section 1115A(d)(3) of the Act 

specifies that the requirements of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 do 

not apply with respect to the testing and 

evaluation of payment and service 

delivery models, or the expansion of 

these models. 

Authority: Section 1115A of the Social 

Security Act. 

Dated: September 28, 2011. 

Donald M. Berwick, 

Administrator, Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[CMS–7022–N] 

Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s 

Health Insurance Programs; Meeting of 

the Advisory Panel on Outreach and 

Education (APOE), November 17, 2011 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Advisory Panel on 

Outreach and Education (APOE) (the 

Panel) in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. The Panel 

advises and makes recommendations to 

the Secretary of Health and Human 

Services and the Administrator of the 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services on opportunities to enhance 

the effectiveness of consumer education 

strategies concerning Medicare, 

Medicaid, and the Children’s Health 

Insurance Program (CHIP). This meeting 

is open to the public. 

DATES: Meeting Date: Thursday, 

November 17, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 

4 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST). 

Deadline for Meeting Registration, 

Presentations and Comments: Thursday, 

November 3, 2011, 5 p.m., Eastern 

Daylight Time (EDT). 

Deadline for Requesting Special 

Accommodations: Thursday, November 

3, 2011, 5 p.m., EDT. 

ADDRESSES: Meeting Location: The 

Embassy Row Hotel, 2015 

Massachusetts Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20036. 

Meeting Registration, Presentations, 

and Written Comments: Jennifer 

Kordonski, Designated Federal Official 

(DFO), Division of Forum and 

Conference Development, Office of 

Communications, Centers for Medicare 

& Medicaid Services, 7500 Security 

Boulevard, Mailstop S1–13–05, 

Baltimore, MD 21244–1850 or contact 

Ms. Kordonski via e-mail at mailto: 

Jennifer.Kordonski@cms.hhs.gov. 

REGISTRATION: The meeting is open to 

the public, but attendance is limited to 

the space available. Persons wishing to 

attend this meeting must register by 


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