Hospitals

Superior Patient Care and Clinical Leadership

Promote Excellence.
Manage Cost.

intellijoint HIP® offers hospitals, clinics and physicians an opportunity to enhance and promote their clinical excellence while simultaneously controlling cost in orthopaedic services through an affordable pay-per-use model.

As a hospital administrator

intellijoint HIP brings superior value to patients by improving surgeon's ability to consistently reach preoperative targets and reduce outliers.

Reduce readmissions and revision surgery

Increase visibility by offering superior technology

Attract patients to your hospital

Without the extraordinary costs and prolonged surgery time.

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You are aware of the current trend to reduce costs by focusing providers on performance measurements that improve medical care.

You are also aware that patients and their families want more assurances about the benefits of joint replacement.

Traditional hip replacement surgery amounts to nearly

1,200,000

procedures per year in Canada, US and EU

Experience vs Judgment venn Diagram

They largely remain dependent on surgeon experience and subjective judgments of soft tissue balancing

Meanwhile researchers report

Mean costs of revision surgery are

$54,553¹³

can reach as high as

$69,380¹³

with length of stay averaging 6.2 days and reaching as high as 11.8 days¹³

Studies indicate the mean costs for readmissions within 30 days of primary THA are

$17,103

per readmission¹⁴

and the mean costs following revision THA are

$27,272

per readmission¹⁴

Dislocations cause

16%

of hospital readmissions within 90 days of hip replacement surgery⁴

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 2610 U.S. hospitals lost an average of 0.63% of total Medicare and Medicaid (MM) reimbursements averaging

a loss of $164,000 per hospital in 2015¹⁵.

Additionally, the upcoming bundled payment/penalty system currently being piloted by CMS will forego payments for readmissions and instead levy penalties.

Centers performing 500 THAs per year could face penalties of close to

$1 million per year

Paving the Way for Bundled Payments

With the introduction of bundled payments, health providers must look at ways to reduce spending variation associated with an episode-of-care in order to avoid potential penalties for inconsistent outcomes.

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Patients Are Seeking Superior Care

Promoting intellijoint HIP's clinical benefits can attract new patients, increase community visibility for your hospital, improve efficiencies and grow your orthopaedic services.

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