PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Joshua A Hirsch AU - Thabele M Leslie-Mazwi AU - Robert M Barr AU - Geraldine McGinty AU - Gregory N Nicola AU - Ezequiel Silva III AU - Laxmaiah Manchikanti TI - The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative AID - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-011746 DP - 2016 May 01 TA - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery PG - 547--548 VI - 8 IP - 5 4099 - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/8/5/547.short 4100 - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/8/5/547.full SO - J NeuroIntervent Surg2016 May 01; 8 AB - The Affordable Care Act enters its fifth year firmly entrenched in our national consciousness. One method that has entered the vernacular for achieving cost savings is accountable care. There are other approaches that are less well known. The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative has the potential to significantly impact neurointerventionalists. We review that initiative here.