Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Bundled Payments

[AnnaLee]

12. I have power of attorney

but I just pulled up the wording. It only kicks in if he is disabled or incapacitated. Does being in the hospital and too uncomfortable to care qualify? His brain works but he would likely say enough is enough and want to just not talk about it.

At CMS, the section of the 2018 document setting up the models for BPCI-Advanced targets people with already in progress "clinical episodes".
https://innovation.cms.gov/files/x/bpciadvanced-rfa.pdf
It might be that everyone getting this mail at home gets it when they are in the hospital and cannot receive it. If you pull the document, go down to page 6, and read under "Model Population" and the first couple of paragraphs of the next section, "BPCI Advanced Model Participation Agreement and Clinical Episode Selection", you will see why I think this.