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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