Association Between Medicare's Mandatory Joint Replacement Bundled Payment Program and Post-Acute Care Use in Medicare Advantage

Andrew D Wilcock; Michael L Barnett; J Michael McWilliams; David C Grabowski; Ateev Mehrotra

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2019.3957

Association Between Medicare's Mandatory Joint Replacement Bundled Payment Program and Post-Acute Care Use in Medicare Advantage

JAMA Surg. 2020 Jan 1;155(1):82-84. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.3957.

Authors

Andrew D Wilcock¹, Michael L Barnett², J Michael McWilliams^{1

3}, David C Grabowski¹, Ateev Mehrotra^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This study examines how the reduced use of institutional post–acute care in Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program affected patients who underwent lower extremity joint replacement.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Arthroplasty, Replacement / economics*
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Medicare Part C*
Medicare*
Patient Care Bundles*
Patient Discharge
Rehabilitation / statistics & numerical data
Subacute Care / statistics & numerical data*
United States

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding