Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit Spending and Readmission Rates.

ABSTRACT: Addressing social determinants of health may help hospitals improve population health and outcomes that are tied to financial incentives, such as readmission rates. Whether this strategy is effective remains unknown. The authors measure the association between nonprofit hospital spending on their community's social needs and Medicare readmission rates. This is a retrospective cohort study (July 2013 to June 2014) that combines Internal Revenue Service tax reports of community benefit spending by private, acute care, nonprofit hospitals with Medicare readmissions data for residents of their surrounding community, the hospital's zip code. Total community benefit spending and 2 of the largest subsets of spending-health care-related and community-directed spending-were measured and normalized

SUBMITTER: Chaiyachati KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7041313 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature