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Post-Acute Care After Joint Replacement in Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative.

Karen E Joynt MaddoxE John OravJie ZhengArnold M Epstein
Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2019)
Reductions in spending under BPCI were driven by a shift from higher- to lower-cost discharge settings, and by shortening the duration of institutional PAC. Hospitals that reduced payments the most had the highest spending at baseline. J Am Geriatr Soc 67:1027-1035, 2019.
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