Mandatory Medicare Bundled Payment Program for Lower Extremity Joint Replacement and Discharge to Institutional Postacute Care

Importance: Bundled payments are an increasingly common alternative payment model for Medicare, yet there is limited evidence regarding their effectiveness. Objective: To report interim outcomes from the first year of implementation of a bundled payment model for lower extremity joint replaceme...

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Main Authors: Finkelstein, Amy, Ji, Yunan, Mahoney, Neale, Skinner, Jonathan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: American Medical Association (AMA) 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123684