Here are four things you need to know:
1. The new CMS proposal includes episode payment models for surgical hip/femur fracture treatment, acute myocardial infarction and coronary artery bypass graft. The proposed payment arrangement compensate providers for an episode of care during an inpatient stay and up to 90 days after a discharge, not for the individual components of care.
2. DePuy Synthes believes it can support the hospitals in 67 metropolitan areas that may have to expand Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement models to include hip fracture patients. The Geriatric Future Program program could help hospitals achieve better outcomes in these patients and see increased efficiencies and patient satisfaction.
3. The program is part of a “broader suite of solutions” that focuses on operational integration and efficiency, continuum of care and patient engagement and experience. Specifically the program takes a team-based approach to treating patients from when they arrive to when they are discharged.
4. Hip fractures because of osteoporosis are a burden on healthcare. In 2010, it was estimated that approximately 258,000 people 65-years-old and older were admitted for hip fractures. The cost for all the hip fractures in a single year is estimated at $20 billion, and the prognosis around these fractures is poor with rising mortality rates, increased nursing home stays and an associated loss of independence.
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