Journal article
Excluding Observation Stays from Readmission Rates - What Quality Measures Are Missing
The New England journal of medicine, Vol.378(22), pp.2062-2065
05/31/2018
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1800732
PMID: 29847758
Abstract
For the past several years, health care reform efforts have focused on reducing preventable hospital readmissions. Most notably, in 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introduced the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), which penalizes hospitals that have higher-than-expected 30-day readmission rates for Medicare patients with certain conditions. Commercial payers and state Medicaid agencies have increasingly followed suit by requiring hospitals to report data on readmissions and by occasionally linking reimbursement and purchasing agreements to performance.1 Consequently, although experts continue to challenge the usefulness of readmission rates for assessing quality of care,2 the rates are now broadly accepted as a measure of hospital quality by payers and policymakers.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Excluding Observation Stays from Readmission Rates - What Quality Measures Are Missing
- Creators
- Amber K SabbatiniBrad Wright
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The New England journal of medicine, Vol.378(22), pp.2062-2065
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJMp1800732
- PMID
- 29847758
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/31/2018
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984364555202771
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