Hospitals unprepared for CJR-X ‘got their head in the sand’: Viewpoint

Steve Schutzer, MD, has spent more than 15 years building and studying bundled payment programs for total joint replacement. He said this work makes him confident that CMS’ new mandatory bundle, CJR-X, can succeed, but only if hospitals and surgeons can collaborate while sharing the risk equally. In 2009, as a practicing orthopedic surgeon in […] The post Hospitals unprepared for CJR-X ‘got their…