TY - JOUR T1 - Can bundled payment improve quality and efficiency of care for patients with hip fractures? AU - Antonova,Evgeniya, AU - Boye,Mark E, AU - Sen,Namrata, AU - O'Sullivan,Amy K, AU - Burge,Russel, PY - 2014/10/10/entrez PY - 2014/10/10/pubmed PY - 2015/9/9/medline KW - bundled payment KW - financing KW - hip fracture KW - reimbursement SP - 1 EP - 20 JF - Journal of aging & social policy JO - J Aging Soc Policy VL - 27 IS - 1 N2 - The current Medicare reimbursement for hip fractures lacks accountability and promotes cost cutting. A bundled payment system-analogous to the Medicare Acute Care Episodes Demonstration for Orthopedic and Cardiovascular Surgery-may help curtail costs, foster communication among health care providers, and improve their accountability for patient outcomes. In hip fracture care, bundled payment may spur development of multidisciplinary best practice guidelines, quality assessment, and reporting, and result in benchmarking and best practices sharing. However, its implementation may face challenges: the need for quality assessment criteria and risk adjustment methods and possible risks of pushing costs outside of Medicare boundaries. SN - 1545-0821 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/25299851/Can_bundled_payment_improve_quality_and_efficiency_of_care_for_patients_with_hip_fractures DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -