Hospitals in low-income communities less likely to participate in bundled payment programs for joint replacement surgery

Medical Xpress May 10, 2022
by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc

A new study has shown that hospitals in low-income communities were less likely to participate in bundled payment programs for joint replacement surgery. Hospitals with more low socioeconomic status individuals were less likely to participate in voluntary—and to an even greater extent, mandatory—bundled payment programs, according to the study published in the peer-reviewed journal Population Health Management.

Joshua Liao, MD, from the University of Washington School of Medicine, and co-authors used Medicare claims and data from the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative and Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model to examine whether hospitals’ bundled payment participation is related to the proportion of historically marginalized individuals in the communities they serve....

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