No Turning Back: 4 Ways Bundled Payments Will Change Rehab Care
Maybe the biggest ICYMI issue in physical therapy so far this year is the impending implementation of Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model (CJR), a program that will require hospitals in 67 metropolitan areas to use bundled payment systems for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA). The system launches on April 1.
You may have some familiarity with the immediate impacts of the CJR on physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs), but the model, and others like it, also set the stage for even bigger shifts in how rehabilitation professionals interact with the health care system.
In the February issue of Physical Therapy (PTJ), APTA’s research journal, APTA Executive Vice President of Public Affairs Justin Moore, PT, DPT, laid out the top 4 long-term practice implications of payment bundles. The article, appearing in PTJ‘s new “Point of View” feature, provides much more detail (as well as an explanation of how we’ve arrived at this moment in health care), but here’s a quick take on that list.
Full story of ways bundled payments will change rehab care at APTA
