Hospitals that readmit 'too soon' will face Medicare penalty

Aug 4 2011

California Watch: Medicare To Penalize Hospitals That Readmit Patients Too Soon
Medicare soon will start docking payments to hospitals if they have a higher-than-expected level of patient readmissions within 30 days of being discharged. The move doesn't bode well for 10 California hospitals already identified by Medicare as having high readmission rates for patients with pneumonia or heart failure (Jewett, 8/2).

Related from KHN: Medicare Prepares Rule To Penalize Hospitals With High Readmission Rates (Rau, 7/30).

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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