Meaningful Use and Hospital Performance on Post-Acute Utilization Indicators.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine trends in hospital post-acute utilization indicators and to determine whether improvement in these indicators is associated with attesting to meaningful use (MU).

Data sources

Medicare claims-based, repeated measures on 30-day hospital-wide all-cause readmission and emergency department (ED) utilization rates for 160 short-stay hospitals (2009-2012); Medicare EHR Incentive Program Payments files (2011-2012); and other hospital and market data.

Study design

Interrupted time series with concurrent comparison group.

Principal findings

Propensity score-weighted multilevel models for change demonstrate that 30-day readmission rates (unadjusted) fell from 13.4 percent in 2009 to 12.1 percent in 2012. Similarly, 30-day ED utilization declined fro

SUBMITTER: Brice YN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5867063 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature