Readmission rates in not-for-profit vs. proprietary hospitals before and after the hospital readmission reduction program implementation

Background The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) to penalize hospitals with excessive 30-day hospital readmissions of Medicare enrollees for specific conditions. This policy was aimed at increasing the quality of care delivered t...

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Published in:	BMC health services research Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 31 - 7
Main Authors:	Birmingham, Lauren E., Oglesby, Willie H.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 19.01.2018 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Ambulatory care facilities Analysis Chief executive officers Clinical outcomes Data analysis Forecasts and trends governance and law Health Administration Health care policy Health Informatics Health policy Health services Healthcare quality Hospital Hospital costs Hospitalization Human subjects Medicaid Medical care quality Medicare Medicine Medicine & Public Health Mortality Nonprofit hospitals Not-for-profit hospital Nursing Research Patient care Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US Patient satisfaction Patients Proprietary Proprietary hospital Public Health Quality Readmissions reform Regression analysis Research Article Review boards Services Socioeconomic factors Statistical analysis United States > US Proprietary hospital Not-for-profit hospital Health policy Hospital Healthcare quality Readmissions
ISSN:	1472-6963, 1472-6963
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