Measures of Care Coordination at Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities and the Medicare 30-Day All-Cause Readmission Rate.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Since late 2012, the Medicare Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting (IPFQR) program of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has required inpatient psychiatric facilities to collect and publicly report a suite of quality measures. This study explored the association between facility-level 30-day risk-adjusted all-cause readmission (medical or psychiatric) after psychiatric hospitalization (READM-30-IPF) and care coordination process measures in the IPFQR program.

Methods

The study used publicly reported IPFQR facility-level performance data of the Hospital Compare Web site for 1,343 inpatient psychiatric facilities, reflecting performance from July 2015 to June 2017. The authors used a cross-sectional design and linear regression models co

SUBMITTER: Benjenk I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7837251 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature