Association Between Hospital Voluntary Participation, Mandatory Participation, or Nonparticipation in Bundled Payments and Medicare Episodic Spending for Hip and Knee Replacements.

JAMA · 2021

retrospective_cohort · Level III

Where this comes from

Abstract

This study uses Medicare claims data to compare spending for hip and joint replacements among hospitals with voluntary vs mandatory participation vs nonparticipation in the Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement program between 2011 and 2017.