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CMS issues guide to preventing hospital readmissions among diverse Medicare patients

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of Minority Health today issued a
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Study: Adjusting for social determinants of health changes readmissions penalty status

In a study published online this week in JAMA Pediatrics, adjusting for social determinants of heal
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Study: No evidence that decline in readmissions linked to changes in observation stays

Hospitals with greater reductions in readmissions rates are no more likely to increase their observation-service use than other hospitals, according to a
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Study: Socioeconomic, other risk factors explain racial disparity in asthma readmissions

African-American children were more than twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to an urban children’s hospital for asthma between August 2010 and October 2011, with socioeconomic and o
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Hospital leaders urge Congress to support HOPD flexibility, changes to readmissions program

Hospital leaders today urged their federal legislators to support certain provisions critical to patients and hospitals before adjourning this legislative session.
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Hospital leaders urge Congress to support HOPD flexibility, changes to readmissions program

Hospital leaders yesterday urged their federal legislators to support certain provisions critical to patients and hospitals before adjourning this legislative session.
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CMS: Medicare 30-day hospital readmissions fall by 565,000 over five years

Medicare 30-day readmission rates declined in 49 states between 2010 and 2015, resulting in an estimated 565,000 fewer hospital readmissions, according to
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Study: Patient risk factors key driver of readmissions in minority-serving hospitals

Patient-related risk factors appear to be the primary driver of readmissions in hospitals serving a higher proportion of minority patients, according to a study published
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Study: Voluntary value-based reforms associated with greater readmissions reductions

Hospitals participating in certain voluntary valued-based reforms have reduced their readmissions more than hospitals participating in only the mandatory Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, ac
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Study looks at hospital readmissions program trends

Average readmissions penalties in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program doubled in the first five years of the program, from 0.29% in 2013 to 0.6% in 2017, according to a