Thursday, January 16, 2014

Readmissions Penalties By State: Year Two

Armed With Bigger Fines, Medicare To Punish 2,225 Hospitals For Excess Readmissions - (August 2013) - Medicare will levy $227 million in fines against hospitals in every state but one for the second round of the government’s campaign to reduce the number of patients readmitted within a month, according to federal records released Friday.

Medicare evaluated the readmission rates of 3,379 hospitals in determining the second year of penalties in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Medicare will apply the penalties to all its payments for patient stays between Oct. 1, 2013, and Sept. 30, 2014. 

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