October 28, 2015
Hospitals with high readmission rates penalized for the patients they serve
Clinical and social characteristics not included in Medicare’s current risk-adjustment methods explained much of the difference in readmission risk between patients admitted to hospitals with higher versus lower readmission rates, a study finds.
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