Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement

USC Arcadia Hospital participates in a Medicare initiative called Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR). The CJR initiative is a model that aims to promote quality and financial accountability for care surrounding lower-extremity joint replacement (LEJR) procedures. These LEJR procedures are commonly referred to as total hip/ total knee/ total ankle replacements and hip fracture surgeries with hemiarthroplasty or bipolar hips.

USC Arcadia Hospital’s participation in the CJR model should not restrict your access to care or your freedom to choose your health care providers and services. All existing Medicare beneficiary protections continue to be available to you. These include the ability to report concerns regarding substandard care to quality improvement organizations by calling 1-800-MEDICARE.

The CJR model aims to help give you better care

USC Arcadia Hospital has entered into financial arrangements with collaborating physicians (and potentially other health care providers) who are engaged in care redesign with the hospital and who may furnish healthcare services to Medicare beneficiaries during an episode of care. Under these agreements, the hospital may share payments received from Medicare as a result of savings achieved through reduced episode spending and hospital internal cost savings. The hospital may also share financial accountability for increased episode spending with collaborating providers and suppliers. The current list below represents those physicians and other healthcare providers that have executed a CJR Collaborator agreement with the hospital enabling each to share in financial rewards and/or losses under the CJR model:

• Morris Baumgarten, MD
• Jonathan Chang, MD
• Yen Hsun Chen, MD
• Braden Criswell, MD
• Todd Dietrick, MD
• Rishi Garg, MD
• Gregory Heinen, MD
• Timothy Jackson, MD
• Daniel Laster, MD
• Vu Le, MD
• Alan Lee, MD
• Gregory Northrop, MD
• James O'Dowd, MD
• Shane Pak, MD
• John Quigley, MD
• Glenn Takei, MD
• Benjamin Tam, MD
• Anthony Yang, MD

The opportunity to participate as a CJR Collaborator is established in accordance with all relevant laws and regulations, including applicable fraud and abuse laws and all applicable payment and coverage requirements as defined under the CJR program. Participation as a CJR Collaborator is not based on patient volume or value of referrals or business otherwise generated by any CJR Collaborator.

The following criteria are utilized in the selection process of any physician to become a CJR Collaborator:

1. Physician must possess a valid and unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of California;
2. Physician maintains clinical privileges at USC Arcadia Hospital, and is in good standing on the medical staff of USC Arcadia Hospital.
3. Physician maintains unrestricted federal and state drug enforcement registration numbers;
4. Physician maintains a participating provider agreement with Medicare and is not excluded from participation in, or sanctioned by, any federal, state, or local healthcare program, including without limitation, Medicare and Medicaid.
5. Physician must agree to participate in care redesign activities related to the CJR Program.

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