Medicare Nation

Welcome Medicare Nation! Hot Topic – The Comprehensive Care For Joint Replacement Model (CJR Model) Hip Replacements & Knee Replacements are the MOST COMMON Inpatient Surgery for Medicare Beneficiaries. In 2014 over 400K procedures were done, which cost Medicare over 7 Billion $ for the Hospitalization for these procedures ALONE. Hip & Knee Replacement Surgeries can require long recovery time & long Rehab periods. I KNOW!  I’m not even on Medicare yet, and I’ve had TWO Arthroscopic Knee Surgeries, and each surgery took me about a good 6 MONTHS to recover.   This is the SCARY PART!   The Quality & Care you receive VARIES from one Hospital to the next! Complications like – Infections received at the hospital …….OR Implant Failures Can be 3X Higher Performed at Some Hospitals More Than Other Hospitals. To me……that is just NEGLIGENCE!  When you go into a hospital……you expect to receive the best care, a clean environment and YOU SHOULD NOT  CONTRACT  ANY INFECTION OR DISEASE from the Hospital y