An Experiment In Reducing Costs, Improving Care At Hillcrest Medical Center - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News /medicare/102609tulsa/ ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News produces in-depth journalism on health issues and is a core operating program of KFF. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:18:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=32 An Experiment In Reducing Costs, Improving Care At Hillcrest Medical Center - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News /medicare/102609tulsa/ 32 32 161476233 An Experiment In Reducing Costs, Improving Care At Hillcrest Medical Center /medicare/102609tulsa/ /medicare/102609tulsa/#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://khn.wp.alley.ws/news/102609tulsa/ Seventy-six year old Frank Morrow is not only having his knee replaced at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He’s also helping to test a Medicare payment system. Under the “bundled” approach, Medicare makes a single reimbursement for all the hospital and doctor care for heart and joint procedures, rather than making separate payments to the facility and physicians.

It’s a win-win-win proposition: The hospital gets guaranteed customers, Medicare saves 4.4% on procedures and Frank Morrow gets $271 as an incentive for going to a hospital that participates in the program.

Producer: Renato Perez


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