CHA DataSuite has released a report analyzing the 2015 Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CCJR) model, a new Medicare Part A and B payment model. The proposed rule implementing CCJR would require acute care hospitals in certain selected geographic areas, including three in California, to participate in the model and receive bundled payments for episodes of care where the diagnosis at discharge included lower extremity joint replacement or attachment of a lower extremity that was furnished by the hospital. The DataSuite analysis provides hospitals with a first look at Medicare spending for episodes of care specific to their own patients. The report uses only 2013 data and is not an estimate of the program’s impact, although an impact analysis will be produced when 2014 data becomes available from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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