Provider organizational leaders and high-volume orthopedic surgeons are keenly focused on mitigating episodic costs, while maintaining or improving clinical quality and improving patient satisfaction. Alternatives to traditional post-surgical rehabilitative care, like the KinexCONNECT (KCK), can help deliver on these goals.
For providers, payers, and systems engaged in value-based care contracts, investing in additional tools or resources may be cost-prohibitive. The KCK requires no upfront provider investment. After providers order the KCK, Kinex specialists process the paperwork digitally and collaborate with payers on pre-authorization. Once device approval is received and the patient is discharged, a Kinex technician delivers the KCK to the patient’s home. This individual configures, fits, and educates the patient about the KCK.
Throughout recovery, Kinex staff act as an extension of the provider practice or health system, monitoring patient progress, regimen compliance, and, when necessary, trigger timely intervention and support. After four to six weeks, a Kinex technician returns to collect the device from the recovering patient, who demonstrates clinically expected flexion and mobility. Removed from the administrative details of coordination and billing, payers and providers realize satisfied, healing, patients and reduced episodic costs.
The KCK immediately reduces the need for traditional PT (either home or outpatient), which results in a savings of $1,000 – $1,200 per case (net of KCK cost).