by MedBen Analytics | Oct 7, 2019 | Alternative Payment Models, Bundled Payments, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), MedBen Analytics, Medicare, Value-Based Care
Inside Health Policy recently reported that Sanjay Doddamani, a senior adviser at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, stated that the center aims to move all beneficiaries in fee-for-service Medicare into alternative payment models by 2025. And while the...
by MedBen Analytics | Sep 4, 2019 | Bundled Payments, CJR, CMS, Data Organization, Data Usage, MedBen Analytics, Medicare, Post-Acute Care, Research
A new University of Michigan study reveals that Medicare spends about $60 billion more per year on post-hospital care than private insurance. It’s a disparity that demonstrates the urgent need to find sensible alternatives to the standard fee-for-service...
by MedBen Analytics | Sep 12, 2018 | CJR, Discharges, Lower extremity joint replacement (LEJR), Medicare
A new study published in JAMA highlights positive discharge numbers for hospitals participating in the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model. The study analyzed changes in discharges to institutional post-acute care after lower extremity joint...
by MedBen Analytics | Nov 20, 2017 | Medicare
The Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) final rule includes something that will have a direct bearing on the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) and Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) models: a provision that removes...
by MedBen Analytics | Nov 4, 2017 | CJR, Medicare
We pretty much knew it was coming, but on November 30 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized its decision to cancel mandatory hip fracture and cardiac bundled payments scheduled to go into effect January 1, 2018. CMS also reduced the number of...
