Medical Xpress April 18, 2022
Wolters Kluwer Health

A “bundled care” Medicare program to improve care for patients undergoing hip or knee replacement surgery has led to reductions in some outcome disparities for Black compared with White patients, suggests a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

The introduction of Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model coincided with a reduction of in hospital readmission rates after hip or knee replacement surgery, according to new research by Calin Moucha, MD, Jashvant Poeran, MD, Ph.D., and other colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

Despite gains, racial differences persist in patient characteristics and outcomes

With use of nationwide Medicare claims data, the researchers analyzed disparities between Black and...

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