Readmissions Reduction Target Too High?
Medicare’s goal of reducing hospital readmissions 20 percent – a [...]
Hospitals Turn to Community Health Workers to Prevent Readmissions
It’s a new twist on an old concept: employ peers [...]
New Approaches to Readmissions Reduction Program?
While Medicare’s readmissions reduction program has produced a decline in [...]
Safety-Net Hospitals’ Readmissions Challenge
The March edition of the journal Health Affairs offers a [...]
Socio-Economic Factors Again Tied to Hospital Readmissions
Another study has linked socio-economic factors to increased hospital readmissions. [...]
Hospitals Not Using Observation Status to Avoid Readmissions Penalties
Hospitals are not moving returning patients to observation status to [...]
Feds Issue Guidance on Reducing Medicare Readmissions
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a [...]
Study Considers How Best to Prevent Readmissions
A five-year study performed by researchers from the Yale School [...]
Medicare Readmissions Program Unfair to Safety-Net Hospitals, Study Finds
Medicare’s readmissions reduction program penalizes hospitals based largely on the [...]
Is Medicare “Pay for Performance” Doing the Job?
Three Medicare initiatives – its hospital readmissions reduction program, value-based [...]
