

Exploring Episode-Based Approaches for Medicare Performance Measurement, Accountability and Payment Final Report. 2. Standardized payments varied widely across and within episode types.
Among the episodes that were related to the nine study conditions, there was substantial variation in average standardized payments, [33] both across episode types and among different episodes of the same type. Per episode average payments for ETGs related to the nine study conditions ranged from an average of $1,306 (episodes related to diabete