Assessment of a Private Payer Bundled Payment Model for Lumbar Decompression Surgery.
Tariq Ziad IssaYunsoo A LeeMark J LambrechtsAditya S MazmudarNicholas D D'AntonioPatrick IofreddaKevin EndersbyAndrew KalraJose A CansecoAlan S HilibrandAlexander R VaccaroGregory D SchroederChristopher K KeplerPublished in: The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (2023)
Preoperatively optimizing comorbidities and using risk stratification to identify those patients who may safely undergo surgery at a facility other than an inpatient hospital may help increase cost savings in a bundled payment model of working-age and Medicare-age individuals.