Drivers of Payment Variation in 90-Day Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Episodes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is scheduled to become a mandatory Medicare bundled payment program in January 2018. A contemporary understanding of 90-day CABG episode payments and their drivers is necessary to inform health policy, hospital strategy, and clinical quality improvement activities. Furthermore, insight into current CABG payments and their variation is important for understanding the potential effects of bundled payment models in cardiac care.

Objective

To examine CABG payment variation and its drivers.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used Medicare and private payer claims to identify patients who underwent nonemergent CABG surgery from January 1, 2012, through October 31, 2015. Ninety-day price-standar

SUBMITTER: Guduguntla V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5833620 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature