Variation in readmission expenditures after high-risk surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program reduces payments to hospitals with excess readmissions for three common medical conditions and recently extended its readmission program to surgical patients. We sought to investigate readmission intensity as measured by readmission cost for high-risk surgeries and examine predictors of higher readmission costs.

Materials and methods

We used the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State Inpatient Database to perform a retrospective cohort study of patients undergoing major chest (aortic valve replacement, coronary artery bypass grafting, lung resection) and major abdominal (abdominal aortic aneurysm repair [open approach], cystectomy, esophagectomy, pancreatectomy) surgery in 2009 and 2010. We fit a multivariable l

SUBMITTER: Jacobs BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5467460 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature