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Editor's choice Hip Knee

Time Waits For No One—Aging Increases Costs

October 9, 2020 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

The cost of medical care in the United States has been shown to rise with advancing patient age, and total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is a

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Editor's Choice Hip Knee

So Far, Bundled Payments Not Affecting Patient Selection for Joint Replacement

February 21, 2020 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

Many people predicted that the mandatory “bundling” of payments for knee and hip arthroplasty by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that began

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Hip Knee

Bundled Payments for Hip and Knee Replacement: Working as Planned?

January 9, 2019 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

When Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) program was implemented in 2016, the health care community—especially orthopaedic surgeons— had 2 major concerns. First, would

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Hip Need to Know Trauma

Bundled Payments: Patient-Specific Care Calls for Patient-Specific Reimbursements

February 22, 2018 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

The bundled-payment model has found some early success within the field of orthopaedic surgery, most notably in joint replacement (see related OrthoBuzz post), However, more

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Hip Knee Need to Know Practice Trends & Tips

Guest Post: Cautious Early Optimism about Medicare’s Bundled Payment Programs

October 13, 2016 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

OrthoBuzz occasionally receives posts from guest bloggers. This guest post comes from Richard Yoon, MD. In a recent issue of JAMA, Dummit et al. analyzed cost

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Knee Need to Know Spine

Could Bundled Payments Work with Cervical Fusion?

August 30, 2016August 30, 2016 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

The answer to that question depends largely on how much the 90-day episode of care actually costs. Virk et al., in the August 17, 2016

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Need to Know

Insight into Bundled Payments for Orthopaedics

June 13, 2016 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

“Alternative payment models are here to stay,” according to an AOA Critical Issues article by Greenwald et al. in the June 1, 2016 issue of

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Practice Trends & Tips

CMS Delays Start of Joint-Replacement Bundled Payments til April 1, 2016

November 20, 2015 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

The final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulating “episode-of-care” Medicare payments to hospitals for hip and knee replacements includes a

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Practice Trends & Tips

Medicare to “Unbundle” Postoperative Care by 2018

April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

During a well-attended symposium on bundled payment initiatives for joint replacement at the 2015 AAOS Annual Meeting, speakers shared enlightening pearls and pitfalls related to

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