McKnight's January 8, 2020
Liza Berger

Two recent key studies on savings from Medicare’s bundled-payment program point to the negative effects of the payment model on nursing homes and post-acute care players, according to a prominent researcher.

Hospital- and physician-led bundles “are a challenge or a threat, not an opportunity, for skilled nursing facilities,” David C. Grabowski, Ph.D., professor of health care policy at the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, told McKnight’s.

Health Affairs this week reported on results of two bundling studies. One found that bundling for hip and knee replacements reduced spending by 1.6% from 2013 to 2016 with no overall change in quality. The other determined that lower extremity joint replacement is the only type of clinical episode in...

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