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Joint Replacement Bundling Rollback May Help Your Hospital Referral Situation

Published on Fri Dec 08, 2017

Medicare has finalized its August proposal to cut the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model from the originally proposed 67 mandated geographic areas to 34 required areas, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a final rule issued Nov. 30. "CMS is also making participation voluntary for all low volume and rural hospitals participating in the model [...]
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