Inaugural Readmission Penalties for Total Hip and Total Knee Arthroplasty Procedures Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) is a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services policy that levies hospital reimbursement penalties based on excess readmissions of patients with 4 medical conditions and 3 surgical procedures. A greater understanding of factors associated with the 3 surgical reimbursement penalties is needed for clinicians in surgical practice.

Objective

To investigate the first year of HRRP readmission penalties applied to 2 surgical procedures-elective total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA)-in the context of hospital and patient characteristics.

Design, setting, and participants

Fiscal year 2015 HRRP penalization data from Hospital Compare were linked with the American Hospital Association Annual

SUBMITTER: Li BY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6902819 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature