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ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2019

Performance Of Safety-Net Hospitals In Year 1 Of The Comprehensive Care For Joint Replacement Model.

Caroline P Thirukumaran, Laurent G Glance, Xueya Cai, Rishi Balkissoon, Addisu Mesfin, Yue Li

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Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Emergency Department Visits After Total Joint Arthroplasty in a Closed Urban Setting: A Report of 1,000 Consecutive Cases.Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Caroline P ThirukumaranCaroline P. Thirukumaran ( caroline_thirukumaran@urmc.rochester.edu ) is an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedics and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester, in New York.
Laurent G GlanceLaurent G. Glance is vice chair for research and a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester.
Xueya CaiXueya Cai is a research associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester.
Rishi BalkissoonRishi Balkissoon is an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedics, University of Rochester.
Addisu MesfinAddisu Mesfin is an associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedics, University of Rochester.
Yue LiYue Li is a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester.

Funding

Impact of Bundled Payment Reforms on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Hip and Knee Replacement SurgeriesR01MD012422 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI THIRUKUMARAN, CAROLINE PINTO · 2017 to 2020
$1.7M
NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD012422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model introduced in 2016 aims to improve the quality and costs of care for Medicare beneficiaries undergoing hip and knee replacements. However, there are concerns that the safety-net hospitals that care for the greatest number of vulnerable patients may perform poorly in CJR. In this study we used Medicare's CJR data to evaluate the performance of 792 hospitals mandated to participate in the first year of CJR. We found that in comparison to non-safety-net hospitals, 42 percent fewer safety-net hospitals qualified for rewards based on their quality and spending performance (33 percent of safety-net hospitals qualified, compared to 57 percent of non-safety-net hospitals), and safety-net hospitals' rewards per episode were 39 percent smaller ($456 compared to $743). Continuation of this performance trend could place safety-net hospitals at increased risk of penalties in future years. Medicare and hospital strategies such as those that reward high-quality care for vulnerable patients could enable safety-net hospitals to compete effectively in CJR.

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Quality Assurance, Health CareSafety-net ProvidersArthroplasty, ReplacementComprehensive Health CareFemaleFinancial Management, HospitalHospitalsHumansInsurance, Health, ReimbursementMaleMedicareMotivationUnited States

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PMID30715982
PMCPMC6446900

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