Changes to Racial Disparities in Readmission Rates After Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Within Safety-Net and Non-Safety-Net Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although readmission rates are declining under Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), concerns remain that the HRRP will harm quality at safety-net hospitals because they are penalized more often. Disparities between white and black patients might widen because more black patients receive care at safety-net hospitals. Disparities may be particularly worse for clinical conditions not targeted by the HRRP because hospitals might reallocate resources toward targeted conditions (acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, and heart failure) at the expense of nontargeted conditions.

Objective

To examine disparities in readmission rates between white and black patients discharged from safety-net or non-safety-net hospitals after the HRRP began, evaluatin

SUBMITTER: Chaiyachati KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324411 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature