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Hospital leaders urge Congress to support HOPD flexibility, changes to readmissions program
Hospital leaders yesterday urged their federal legislators to support certain provisions critical to patients and hospitals before adjourning this legislative session.
CMS: Medicare 30-day hospital readmissions fall by 565,000 over five years
Medicare 30-day readmission rates declined in 49 states between 2010 and 2015, resulting in an estimated 565,000 fewer hospital readmissions, according to
Study: Patient risk factors key driver of readmissions in minority-serving hospitals
Patient-related risk factors appear to be the primary driver of readmissions in hospitals serving a higher proportion of minority patients, according to a study published
Study: Voluntary value-based reforms associated with greater readmissions reductions
Hospitals participating in certain voluntary valued-based reforms have reduced their readmissions more than hospitals participating in only the mandatory Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, ac
Study looks at hospital readmissions program trends
Average readmissions penalties in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program doubled in the first five years of the program, from 0.29% in 2013 to 0.6% in 2017, according to a
Study: Interventions to reduce readmissions working; cost savings vary
Efforts to reduce hospital readmissions are working, but they don’t always save money, according to a
Top-performing CMS project touted for curbing 30-day readmissions
Sun Health in Surprise, Ariz., knows what it takes to prevent Medicare patients from returning to the hospital within 30 days of discharge.
Allied Hospital Association Leadership for Quality
In 2011, eighteen allied hospital associations submitted their success stories in performance improvement for the American Hospital Association's inaugural Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for
HRRP penalizes hospitals based largely on the patients they serve, study finds
Medicare patients admitted to hospitals with higher readmission rates are more likely to have characteristics associated with a higher probability of readmission, according to a
Study: Safety-net hospitals catch up to other hospitals in HRRP, but not in VBP
Safety-net hospitals had larger average penalties than non-safety net hospitals under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in fiscal year 2013, but that difference had disappeared by 2016, a