Christopher Cheney, for HealthLeaders Media , February 5, 2015
Individual hospital performance accounts for less than half of the variation in pooled readmission rates across the United States, researchers find.
County-based data collected from across the country show hospitals are far from solely responsible for readmission rates.
An analysis of the data, which is slated for publication this […]
If you’re not paying attention to the Affordable Care Act’s Hospital Acquired Condition (HAC) provisions, you should be. Based on their performance on Hospital Acquired Condition program measures, 724 hospitals lost a portion of their inpatient reimbursement fiscal year 2015. The affected hospitals had high incidence rates for tracked HAC conditions, which consist of:
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On January 26, 2015, CMS released three Fact Sheets solidifying their commitment to the transition from a volume based Fee-for-Service to delivery model to one based on value, quality, and population health. A healthcare provider’s ability to successfully operate under and meet the challenges associated with this delivery model transition will be directly dependent upon […]