Modern Healthcare October 7, 2017
When administrator Dr. Geoffrey Cole found out last year that his hospital would be participating in Medicare’s mandatory bundled-payment program for total hip and knee replacement procedures, he started meeting with orthopedic surgeons.
Cole initially was skeptical about the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement, or CJR, program the CMS Innovation Center launched in April 2016. “We would not have chosen to be in this program unless it was mandated, but we accepted it and dealt with it,” said Cole, executive director of operations at Piedmont Athens (Ga.) Regional Medical Center.
But he quickly engaged physicians in the process of redesigning and improving the patient-care process—exactly what experts say is key to the success of bundling and other value-based payment initiatives....
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