====== Bundled payment ======

Bundled payment, also known as episode-based payment, episode payment, episode-of-care payment, case rate, evidence-based case rate, global bundled payment, global payment, package pricing, or packaged pricing, is defined as the [[reimbursement]] of Healthcare providers (such as hospitals and physicians) "on the basis of expected costs for clinically-defined episodes of care.

It has been described as "a middle ground" between fee-for-service reimbursement (in which providers are paid for each service rendered to a patient) and capitation (in which providers are paid a "lump sum" per patient regardless of how many services the patient receives).

Bundled payments have been proposed in the [[Healthcare reform]] debate in the [[United States]] as a strategy for reducing Healthcare costs, especially during the Obama administration.
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Salas-Vega et al. sought to distinguish among the clinical and nonclinical drivers of patient [[length of stay]] (LOS) in the hospital following elective [[lumbar laminectomy]]-a common [[spinal surgery]] that may be reimbursed using bundled [[payment]]s-and to understand their relationships with [[patient outcome]]s and [[cost]]s.