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MAY 5, 2017

Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement: A Bundled-Payment Primer

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Kelly C. Price

Newport Beach, Calif.—In a push to support more efficient care for beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing bundled payments and quality metrics for numerous clinical episodes, including hip and knee replacement surgeries.

At the Interdisciplinary Conference on Orthopedic Value-Based Care, Kelly C. Price outlined the fundamentals of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model, which holds participating hospitals