Executives at University of Rochester Medical Center are so pleased with how the federal government's bundled payment joint replacement program is working that they want to expand it beyond Medicare, James Garnham, who heads bundled payments for the system, said Monday at a hearing on Capital Hill.
Within a year, the University of Rochester Medical Center reduced the percentage of patients receiving rehab care for joint replacement at a skilled nursing facility from 74 percent to less than 25 percent. And most patients now receive less expensive care at home, Garnham said.
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