For Medicare patients, a study published in JAMA found no evidence for an increase in in-hospital or post-discharge mortality linked to the implementation of CMS’ Hospital Readmissions Reduction ...

Many observers are calling for modification of Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) to relieve an unfair burden on safety-net hospitals, which serve low-income populations and ...

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program has been associated with improvements in readmission rates, yet little is known about its effect on racial disparities. We compared trends in thirty-day ...

ANAHEIM, CA — Controversial new research suggests the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) may have slowed the revolving door for Medicare ...

Last year, 2,225 hospitals had their payments reduced through Oct. 1 this year because of excess readmissions, thanks to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program established by the Patient ...

Hospital readmissions are costly and often preventable events. Yet intense efforts to decrease readmissions rates and avoid penalties under the 2010 federal healthcare reform law have yet to have a ...

For more than a decade, hospitals have worked to help older adults avoid repeated inpatient stays, incentivized by a federal program that cuts Medicare reimbursements if hospitals have ...

Posters presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions in Chicago, Illinois, found that the neighborhood income and socioeconomic status had an effect on heart failure and ...

A great deal of attention has been directed by hospitals and health systems to the evolution of the accountable care organization (ACO) initiative. With the selection of the Pioneer group of health ...

Hospitals in Lake and Porter County will receive reduced Medicare payments in 2023 due to high patient readmission numbers. Area hospitals have have been repeatedly penalized for readmission rates; St ...

Readmission rate improvements often attributed to an Affordable Care Act policy fining hospitals with higher-than-expected readmissions may actually be the result of changes in how visits were being ...