The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed bundling of payments for
acute care episodes for certain procedures, including total joint arthroplasty. The purpose of …

Previous studies have demonstrated no significant difference in overall functional outcomes
of patients discharged to a sub acute setting versus home with health services after total …

Reducing the cost of total joint implants can significantly reduce the cost of an episode of care
without affecting the quality. In 2011 we began a program to decrease and standardize the …

Background To quantify how baseline differences in patients undergoing hip arthroplasty for
fracture vs elective care potentially lead to significant differences in immediate health care …

There is currently wide variation in the use and cost of post acute care following total joint
arthroplasty. Additionally the optimum setting to which patients should be discharged after …

Background: The opioid epidemic in the United States is a public health crisis. As a result,
regulatory agencies, including state governments, have enacted initiatives to decrease the …

Preoperative screening and decolonization of methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA and MRSA, respectively) are advocated to reduce surgical …

Methods: We randomly distributed the HCAHPS survey, a validated, standardized measure
of patient satisfaction, to 6,056 patients discharged from our institution for any orthopedic …

In order to control the unsustainable rise in healthcare costs the Federal Government is
experimenting with the bundled payment model for total joint arthroplasty (TJA). In this risk …

The purpose of our pre–post intervention study was to reduce the number of near‐miss
events pertaining to wrong‐site surgery, including incorrectly sided surgical bookings and …