Bundled Payment Models in Spine Surgery: Current Challenges and Opportunities, a Systematic Review.
Bundled payment
Cervical
Challenges
Cost variation
Degenerative spine surgery
Episodes of care
Lumbar
Opportunities
Payment variation
Spine surgery
Journal
World neurosurgery
ISSN: 1878-8769
Titre abrégé: World Neurosurg
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101528275
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2019
Mar 2019
Historique:
received:
09
10
2018
revised:
01
12
2018
accepted:
03
12
2018
pubmed:
16
12
2018
medline:
5
4
2019
entrez:
16
12
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Bundled payments offer a lump sum for management of particular conditions over a specified period that has the potential to reduce health care payments. In addition, bundled payments represent a shift toward patient-centered reimbursement, which has the upside of improved care coordination among providers and may lead to improved outcomes. To review the challenges and sources of payment variation and opportunities for restructuring bundled payments plans in the context of spine surgery. We reviewed episodes of care over the past 10 years. We completed a search using PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines and the PICOS (Participants, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes, Study Design) model in PubMed and Ovid databases to identify studies that met our search criteria. Ten studies met the search criteria, which were retrospective in design. The primary recipient of reimbursement was the hospital associated with the index procedure (59.7%-77% of the bundled payment), followed by surgeon reimbursement (12.8%-14%) and post-acute care rehabilitation (3.6%-7.3%). On average, the index hospitalization was $32,467, ranging from $11,880 to $107,642, depending on number of levels fused, complications, and malignancy. Readmission was shown to increase the 90-day payment by 50%-200% for uncomplicated fusion. The implementation of spine surgery in bundled payment models offers opportunity for health care cost reduction. Patient heterogeneity, complications, and index hospitalization pricing are among factors that contribute to the challenge of payment variation. Development of standard care pathways, multidisciplinary coordination between inpatient and outpatient postoperative care, and empowerment of patients are also key elements of progress in the evolution of bundled payments in spine surgery. We anticipate more individualized risk-adjusted prediction models of payment for spine surgery, contributing to more manageable variation in payment and favorable models of bundled payments for payers and providers.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Bundled payments offer a lump sum for management of particular conditions over a specified period that has the potential to reduce health care payments. In addition, bundled payments represent a shift toward patient-centered reimbursement, which has the upside of improved care coordination among providers and may lead to improved outcomes.
OBJECTIVE
OBJECTIVE
To review the challenges and sources of payment variation and opportunities for restructuring bundled payments plans in the context of spine surgery.
METHODS
METHODS
We reviewed episodes of care over the past 10 years. We completed a search using PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines and the PICOS (Participants, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes, Study Design) model in PubMed and Ovid databases to identify studies that met our search criteria.
RESULTS
RESULTS
Ten studies met the search criteria, which were retrospective in design. The primary recipient of reimbursement was the hospital associated with the index procedure (59.7%-77% of the bundled payment), followed by surgeon reimbursement (12.8%-14%) and post-acute care rehabilitation (3.6%-7.3%). On average, the index hospitalization was $32,467, ranging from $11,880 to $107,642, depending on number of levels fused, complications, and malignancy. Readmission was shown to increase the 90-day payment by 50%-200% for uncomplicated fusion.
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
The implementation of spine surgery in bundled payment models offers opportunity for health care cost reduction. Patient heterogeneity, complications, and index hospitalization pricing are among factors that contribute to the challenge of payment variation. Development of standard care pathways, multidisciplinary coordination between inpatient and outpatient postoperative care, and empowerment of patients are also key elements of progress in the evolution of bundled payments in spine surgery. We anticipate more individualized risk-adjusted prediction models of payment for spine surgery, contributing to more manageable variation in payment and favorable models of bundled payments for payers and providers.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30553071
pii: S1878-8750(18)32800-6
doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.12.001
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Systematic Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
177-183Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Inc.