Readmission Rates After Passage of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: A Pre-Post Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whether hospitals with the highest risk-standardized readmission rates (RSRRs) subsequently experienced the greatest improvement after passage of the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) is unknown.

Objective

To evaluate whether passage of the HRRP was followed by acceleration in improvement in 30-day RSRRs after hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), congestive heart failure (CHF), or pneumonia and whether the lowest-performing hospitals had faster acceleration in improvement after passage of the law than hospitals that were already performing well.

Design

Pre-post analysis stratified by hospital performance groups.

Setting

U.S. acute care hospitals.

Patients

15 170 008 Medicare patients discharged alive fr

SUBMITTER: Wasfy JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5507076 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature