by MedBen Analytics | Nov 18, 2019 | Bundled Payments, MedBen Analytics, Performance, Reports, Research, Value-Based Care, Wasteful Spending
A recent study found that waste accounts for about 25% of U.S. health care spending, with wasteful spending costing Americans between $760 billion to $935 billion annually. Researchers determined that the highest amount of wasteful spending was linked to...
by MedBen Analytics | Jan 15, 2019 | Bundled Payments, CJR, Performance, Research, Value-Based Care
New Harvard University research shows promising results for the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model. As published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a two-year study of bundled payments for hip and knee replacement surgeries found an average...
by MedBen Analytics | Dec 17, 2018 | Bundled Payments, Data Organization, Data Usage, MedBen Analytics, Performance
One goal of the insight newsletter is to place MedBen Analytics in a broader real-world context. But that’s not to say that the benefits of our bundled payment reporting platform don’t stand on their own! If you haven’t checked out the MedBen...
by MedBen Analytics | Jun 18, 2018 | BPCI, Bundled Payments, CJR, Performance
Using Medicare and American Hospital Association data, Health Affairs recently compared characteristics and baseline performance among hospitals in Medicare’s voluntary (Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, or BPCI) and mandatory (Comprehensive Care...
