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Study: Interventions to reduce readmissions working; cost savings vary
Efforts to reduce hospital readmissions are working, but they don’t always save money, according to a
Top-performing CMS project touted for curbing 30-day readmissions
Sun Health in Surprise, Ariz., knows what it takes to prevent Medicare patients from returning to the hospital within 30 days of discharge.
Allied Hospital Association Leadership for Quality
In 2011, eighteen allied hospital associations submitted their success stories in performance improvement for the American Hospital Association's inaugural Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for
HRRP penalizes hospitals based largely on the patients they serve, study finds
Medicare patients admitted to hospitals with higher readmission rates are more likely to have characteristics associated with a higher probability of readmission, according to a
Study: Safety-net hospitals catch up to other hospitals in HRRP, but not in VBP
Safety-net hospitals had larger average penalties than non-safety net hospitals under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in fiscal year 2013, but that difference had disappeared by 2016, a
AHACareerCenter.org issues 2015 Environmental Scan
AHACareerCenter.org this week released its 2015 Health Care Talent Acquisition Environmental Scan, an annual snapshot of America’s he
Study: HAC Reduction Program may not accurately measure hospital quality
Hospitals with structural characteristics reflecting volume, accreditations and advanced services tend to perform better than others on publicly reported quality measures but are penalized signific
Hospital corrections to HAC data due Aug. 14
Hospitals are encouraged to review their hospital-specific reports for the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program and submit any corrections before the 30-day review and correction period en
CMS re-issues FY 2016 HAC penalty preview reports; corrections due Oct. 21
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday re-issued hospital-specific reports to all hospitals in the fiscal year 2016 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program to correct inac
Reminder: Corrections to revised HAC penalty preview reports due Oct. 21
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week re-issued hospital-specific reports to all hospitals in the fiscal year 2016 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program to correct inac