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Aug 4, 2014

Bundled Payment Fails to Gain a Foothold in California: The Experience of the IHA Bundled Payment Demonstration

To determine whether bundled payment could be an effective payment model for California, the Integrated Healthcare Association convened a group of stakeholders to develop, through a consensus process, the methods and means of implementing bundled payment.
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Jan 1, 2014

Project JOINTS: What Factors Affect Bundle Adoption in a Voluntary Quality Improvement Campaign?

The authors examine how hospital adherence to quality improvement (QI) methods and hospital engagement with a large-scale QI campaign could facilitate the adoption of an enhanced prevention bundle designed to reduce surgical site infection (SSI) rates after orthopaedic surgery.
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Jan 1, 2013

Evaluation of Centers of Excellence Program for Knee and Hip Replacement

The costs of knee and hip replacement in designated centers of excellence do not differ from costs in other hospitals. But hip replacements performed in such centers had lower complication rates. Complication rates for knee replacement did not differ.
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Sep 1, 2011

Medicare's Bundled Payment Pilot for Acute and Postacute Care: Analysis and Recommendations on Where to Begin

Medicare's National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling should use hip fracture and joint replacement as the conditions to include and use longer episodes, capturing a higher percentage of costs and hospital readmissions but adding little financial risk.

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