hospital readmissions

Medicare's new program will alter a year's worth of payments to 14,959 skilled nursing facilities across the U.S., based on how often in the past fiscal year their residents ended up back in hospitals within 30 days of leaving.

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Health & Safety

Medicare To Cut Payments To Nursing Homes Whose Patients End Up Back In The Hospital

12:42pm December 01, 2018

by Jordan Rau

Medicare's incentive program to discourage nursing homes from discharging patients too quickly will also give bonuses to facilities that have fewer rehospitalizations.

Sutter Health Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, in Oakland, Calif. is one of hundreds of hospitals serving poor patients that will get some reprieve from Medicare's readmissions penalties.

Health & Safety

Medicare Eases Up On Readmissions Penalties For Hospitals Serving The Poor

5:00am September 26, 2018

by Jordan Rau

Many hospitals that serve a large share of low-income patients will benefit from Medicare's less punishing approach to penalties for patient readmissions.