Time Waits For No One—Aging Increases Costs
The cost of medical care in the United States has been shown to rise with advancing patient age, and total …
So Far, Bundled Payments Not Affecting Patient Selection for Joint Replacement
Many people predicted that the mandatory “bundling” of payments for knee and hip arthroplasty by the Centers for Medicare and …
Bundled Payments for Hip and Knee Replacement: Working as Planned?
When Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) program was implemented in 2016, the health care community—especially orthopaedic surgeons— had …
Bundled Payments: Patient-Specific Care Calls for Patient-Specific Reimbursements
The bundled-payment model has found some early success within the field of orthopaedic surgery, most notably in joint replacement (…
Guest Post: Cautious Early Optimism about Medicare’s Bundled Payment Programs
OrthoBuzz occasionally receives posts from guest bloggers. This guest post comes from Richard Yoon, MD.
In a recent issue of …
Could Bundled Payments Work with Cervical Fusion?
The answer to that question depends largely on how much the 90-day episode of care actually costs. Virk et al…
Insight into Bundled Payments for Orthopaedics
“Alternative payment models are here to stay,” according to an AOA Critical Issues article by Greenwald et al. in …
CMS Delays Start of Joint-Replacement Bundled Payments til April 1, 2016
The final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulating “episode-of-care” Medicare payments to hospitals for hip …
Medicare to “Unbundle” Postoperative Care by 2018
During a well-attended symposium on bundled payment initiatives for joint replacement at the 2015 AAOS Annual Meeting, speakers shared enlightening …