Outcomes by Race and Ethnicity Following a Medicare Bundled Payment Program for Joint Replacement.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model, a traditional Medicare bundled payment program for lower-extremity joint replacement, is associated with care for patients outside traditional Medicare. Whether CJR model outcomes have differed by patient race or ethnicity outside of traditional Medicare is unclear.

Objective

To evaluate outcomes associated with the CJR model among Hispanic patients not enrolled in traditional Medicare.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used hospitalization data from California's Patient Discharge Dataset for all patients who underwent lower-extremity joint replacement in California between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2017. In California, 3 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) were randomly s

SUBMITTER: Kim N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11409153 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature