Association Between Hospital Penalty Status Under the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program and Readmission Rates for Target and Nontarget Conditions

Readmission rates declined after announcement of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), which penalizes hospitals for excess readmissions for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), and pneumonia. To compare trends in readmission rates for target and nontarget conditions,...

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Published in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 316; no. 24; pp. 2647 - 2656
Main Authors:	Desai, Nihar R, Ross, Joseph S, Kwon, Ji Young, Herrin, Jeph, Dharmarajan, Kumar, Bernheim, Susannah M, Krumholz, Harlan M, Horwitz, Leora I
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 27.12.2016
Subjects:	Acute Disease Aged Economics, Hospital - statistics & numerical data Economics, Hospital - trends Fee-for-Service Plans - legislation & jurisprudence Fee-for-Service Plans - statistics & numerical data Fee-for-Service Plans - trends Heart Failure - epidemiology Hospital Bed Capacity - statistics & numerical data Hospitals - statistics & numerical data Humans Interrupted Time Series Analysis Legislation, Hospital Longitudinal Studies Medicare - statistics & numerical data Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology Patient Readmission - legislation & jurisprudence Patient Readmission - statistics & numerical data Patient Readmission - trends Pneumonia - epidemiology Retrospective Studies Time Factors United States
ISSN:	1538-3598
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