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The Association Between The Medicare Bundled Payments Initiative And Cardiac Rehabilitation Enrollment, Jing Li

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) represents a proven-effective intervention in secondary prevention that can stabilize, slow or reverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) progression, facilitate the ability of the patient to preserve or resume an active and functional contribution to the community, and reduce the risk of future cardiovascular events. Despite multiple guideline recommendations for CR and coverage by Medicare and most health plans, participation in CR remains low. Bundled payments are one of the suggested reforms designed to move health care providers toward to value-based care and is very applicable to the CR utilization in patients diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or …