Fierce Health Payers January 7, 2020
A review of 20 studies on bundled payments found that hip and knee replacement bundles led to lower Medicare costs, but the same can’t be said for other types of conditions.
A new study found Medicare’s hip and knee replacement bundled payment models didn’t lead to a decrease in quality of care and also saved Medicare money.
But bundled payments for other types of clinical episodes like heart attacks haven’t yielded similar results.
The research, published Monday in the journal Health Affairs, offers a review of 20 existing studies that examined how bundled payments have impacted spending, healthcare utilization and quality. The study comes as the Trump administration has introduced new payment models as part of a larger shift toward...
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