Stakes Rise on Hospital Readmissions
Stakes Rise on Hospital Readmissions
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services begins to cut reimbursement for hospitals that have more 30-day readmissions than their peers and has announced plans to expand the program beyond the initial three diagnoses, Medicaid agencies and commercial payers are looking at their own programs to penalize hospitals for readmissions. In this issue, we provide tips and resources to help you meet the increasing challenges of preventing readmissions. We'll show you when to extend the discharge plan beyond the hospital walls, how to identify and engage patient caregivers, and why you should look beyond the patient's illness in planning discharge. You'll learn about two different methods two hospitals used to successfully reduce their 30-day overall readmission rates. It's all in this issue of Hospital Case Management.
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