Hospitals
Superior Patient Care and Clinical Leadership
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
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
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.
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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