Home Health Care News May 4, 2021
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) payment model. That’s welcome news for home health operators, as CJR has been a key program for participating agencies since its implementation.
Introduced in 2016, CJR essentially allows CMS to hand out bonuses or inflict payment penalties to providers based on how well certain hip- and knee-replacement patients are cared for.
The model has successfully been able to reduce health care spending, in large part thanks to an increase in home health care for CJR patients. CJR was one of the early departures from fee-for-service reimbursement, instead providing fixed payments for hip and knee procedures plus follow-up care.
That follow-up care is...
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