CJR Program

by Gloria Kupferman, Vice President DataGen Group

Overview and Resources

On November 16, 2015 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule for the Medicare Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model.  The program will be effective for discharges occurring on or after April 1, 2016, in the 67 designated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), unless otherwise noted.

HFMA recently published a short article about the data for the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program that was released in August. However, we have some additional caveats that should be considered in using this data.