Two-Year Evaluation of Mandatory Bundled Payments for Joint Replacement.
Michael L BarnettAndrew WilcockJ Michael McWilliamsArnold M EpsteinKaren E Joynt MaddoxE John OravDavid C GrabowskiAteev MehrotraPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2019)
In the first 2 years of the CJR program, there was a modest reduction in spending per hip- or knee-replacement episode, without an increase in rates of complications. (Funded by the Commonwealth Fund and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.).