Published in:
01-06-2016 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Validation of the HOOS, JR: A Short-form Hip Replacement Survey
Author:
Richard Iorio, MD
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 6/2016
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Excerpt
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently introduced voluntary patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) reporting within the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model. The goals of the CJR model include offering more efficient care for Medicare beneficiaries with hip and knee replacements and creating a mandatory lower-extremity joint replacement program for hospitals in 67 metropolitan areas. A program of that size will likely affect approximately 120,000 CMS patients per year. The reporting begins on April 1, 2016, and will last through the end of 2020. …