Amid myriad regulatory battles, America’s hospital advocates are imploring the government and policy makers to consider revising one of the Affordable Care Act’s signature cost-control provisions: the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and electronic health record–based automation tools helped a safety-net health system meet performance-based readmission metrics, thereby retaining critical funding while ...

Section 3026 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides for a five-year demonstration project called the Community-based Care Transitions Program. Funded by $500 million in federal ...

CMS began publicly reporting hospital readmission rates in July 2009. These reports highlight the amount of resources wasted by reimbursing care provided for potentially avoidable readmissions and ...

ANAHEIM, CA — Controversial new research suggests the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) may have slowed the revolving door for Medicare ...

Hospital readmissions are costly and often preventable events. Yet intense efforts to decrease readmissions rates and avoid penalties under the 2010 federal healthcare reform law have yet to have a ...

Before 2017, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital – an urban, academic safety-net hospital within the San Francisco Health Network – struggled with some of the highest 30-day readmission rates in ...

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vizient ® today released a report identifying the impact of social determinants of health and local market dynamics on hospital readmission rates and emergency ...

The University of Michigan’s flagship hospital has reduced its Medicare/Medicaid penalties for hospital readmissions over the past two years, reflecting sustained efforts to improve patient outcomes ...

Adequate outpatient follow-up within 30 days significantly reduces 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions, impacting hospital finances and patient care quality. The study analyzed 83 studies, ...

Aetna, a CVS Health Inc. (NYSE:CVS) company, announced it will scale the Aetna Clinical Collaboration (ACC) program to ten hospitals by year-end, with implementations underway with AdventHealth ...