Affordable Care Organizations and Bundled Pricing
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Innovation was chartered to develop new models of health care delivery. The changes meant…
Patient Centeredness in Total Joint Replacement
Patient-centered care (PCC) is gaining considerable momentum among health care professionals and policy-making authorities. The need for PCC stems from the innumerable benefits of adopting such a system. The practice…
High Reliability of Care in Orthopedic Surgery
As health care reimbursement models shift from volume-based to value-based models, orthopedic surgeons must provide patients with highly reliable care, while consciously minimizing cost, maintaining quality, and providing timely interventions….
Planning, Building, and Maintaining a Successful Musculoskeletal Service Line
Within the past 3 decades, a recent trend in the growth of musculoskeletal service lines has been seen nationally. Orthopedics offers an appealing concourse for implementation of service-line care. Within…
Reducing 30-day Readmission After Joint Replacement
Hospital readmission is a focus of quality measures used by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to evaluate quality of care. Policy changes provide incentives and enforce penalties to…
Approach to Decrease Infection Following Total Joint Arthroplasty
Surgical site infection in total joint arthroplasty is a challenging complication that warrants discussion with regard to prevention and management. Limiting postoperative infection rate is a paramount quest in the…
Reducing Length of Stay in Total Joint Arthroplasty Care
As health care reforms continue to improve quality of care, significant emphasis will be placed on evaluation of orthopedic patient outcomes. Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) has a proven track record…
Health Care Reform
The US health care system has been fragmented for more than 40 years; this model created a need for modification. Sociopoliticomedical system-related factors led to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and…
Sports-Related Injuries
“Sports injuries” are injuries that happen when playing sports or exercising. The severity of these injuries can range from minor to very serious, with some injuries requiring surgery to fully…
Orthopedic Clinics of North America
www.orthopedic.theclinics.com Sports-Related Injuries October 2016 • Volume 47 • Number 4 Editors JAMES H. CALANDRUCCIO BENJAMIN J. GREAR BENJAMIN M. MAUCK JEFFREY R. SAWYER PATRICK C. TOY JOHN C. WEINLEIN
