Association Between Medicare Hospital Readmission Penalties and 30-Day Combined Excess Readmission and Mortality
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DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.3704
Abstract: Importance US hospitals receive financial penalties for excess risk–standardized 30-day readmissions and mortality in Medicare patients. Under current policy, readmission prevention is incentivized over 10-fold more than mortality reduction. Objective To determine how penalties for… read more here.
Keywords: readmission; readmission penalties; ratio; mortality ... See more keywords