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Our partners at the Rothman Institute used actionable insight from our Care Measurement platform to make the case for cost-savings by reducing the use of antibiotic cement for total knee arthroplasties. Read more of their findings here:

The Economics of Antibiotic Cement in Total Knee Arthroplasty: Added Cost with No Reduction in Infection Rates. - PubMed - NCBI J Arthroplasty. 2019 Apr 26. pii: S0883-5403(19)30411-5. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2019.04.043. [Epub ahead of print]

Using insight from our Care Measurement platform, our partners at the Rothman Institute have made the case for why a conversion total knee arthroplasty needs its own diagnosis-related group code. Read more about it here:

Conversion Total Knee Arthroplasty Needs Its Own Diagnosis-Related Group Code. - PubMed - NCBI J Arthroplasty. 2019 Jun 1. pii: S0883-5403(19)30528-5. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2019.05.045. [Epub ahead of print]

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Hollywood Presbyterian uses bundle management platform to succeed in value-based care Among other things, the technology has helped the hospital achieve a $3 million reconciliation payment annually for one CMS bundle alone.

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Case Studies — Avant-garde Health Gundersen Health System needed more advanced analytics to further improvement efforts. Leaders sought a tool to help identify and support unseen opportunities for improvement across the care continuum.

McKnight's Long-Term Care News weighs in on our recent JAMA publication on , and the joint bundle's impact to SNFs in particular:

Joint bundle pushes costs down — at SNFs’ expense - News - McKnight's Long Term Care News The first two years of a mandatory payment bundle for joint replacements saved Medicare more than 2% annually, but much of it came through reduced payments to post-acute providers.