The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program penalizes hospitals ... number of hospitals meeting the volume threshold for penalty assessment. It would increase total penalties, although restoring ...

and the results of this early assessment of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program suggest that the program is impacting hospitals in the direction intended by the ACA in one large state ...

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program reduces Medicare prospective ... less than forty-eight hours and when care is focused on assessment or reassessment. However, although the cost and ...

Earlier this month, CMS released data on the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP ... robust risk-stratification process and a risk-assessment process at the individual patient level ...

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program has had a major impact on hospital leaders’ efforts to reduce readmission rates; however, important concerns about the program remain. Objectives: To ...

Many hospitals participating in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative have successfully reduced avoidable readmissions ... The hospital used an assessment ...

According to the reduction program, a readmission occurs when a Medicare patient is readmitted to the same or another acute-care hospital within ... about social risk assessment, including what ...

today announced the launch of its Quality Improvement and Value Assessment Program. The program is designed to help hospitals measure the potential reduction in 30-day hospital readmissions and ...

Under the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program ... from hospital to home may be breaking down. Regulators’ assessment of customer support centers has spurred recent lawsuits from ...

hoping to recoup over $300 million in the coming year as part of the Affordable Care Act's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Hospital inpatient costs accounted for a quarter of Medicare's $ ...

but there was an association between LACE and HOSPITAL scores and 30-day readmission risk. “Our study suggests that the use of clinically validated readmission risk assessment tools instead of ...