TY  - JOUR
T1  - Managing Episodes of Care: Strategies for Orthopaedic Surgeons in the Era of Reform
AU  - Enquist, Mary
AU  - Bosco III, Joseph A.
AU  - Pazand, Lily
AU  - Habibi, Karim A.
AU  - Donoghue, Richard J.
AU  - Zuckerman, Joseph D.
Y1  - 2011/05/18
N1  - 10.2106/JBJS.J.01703
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - e55 1
EP  - 7
VL  - 93
IS  - 10
N2  - 
While the demand for hip and knee replacements is on the rise, reimbursement from public payers continues to decline. As Medicare experiments with payment reform strategies, such as the National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling outlined in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), orthopaedic surgeons will need to identify ways to cut costs, maintain quality measures, and manage post-acute care to survive in a changing marketplace. This article seeks to demystify the episode-of-care bundled payment methodology, provide a roadmap of what orthopaedic surgeons can do to participate in this demonstration project, and present strategies to mitigate the inherent risks.

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 10.2106/JBJS.J.01703
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.J.01703
ER  -