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:
- Physician must possess a valid and unrestricted license to practice medicine
in the State of California;
- Physician maintains clinical privileges at USC Arcadia Hospital, and is
in good standing on the medical staff of USC Arcadia Hospital.
- Physician maintains unrestricted federal and state drug enforcement registration numbers;
- 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.
- Physician must agree to participate in care redesign activities related
to the CJR Program.
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