Association Between Financial Incentives in Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and Hospital Readmission Performance

Burden of Clostridium difficile infection on hospital readmissions and its potential impact under the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program.

BACKGROUND Both Clostridium [corrected] difficile infection (CDI) rates in hospitals and interest in reducing 30-day readmission rates have increased dramatically in the United States. The objective of this study was to characterize the burden of CDI on 30-day hospital readmissions at a tertiary care health-system. METHODS A patient discharge database was used to identify patients with a CDI ...

Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: An Economic and Operational Analysis

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), a part of the US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to penalize hospitals with excess readmissions. We take an economic and operational (patient flow) perspective to analyze the effectiveness of this policy in encouraging hospitals to reduce readmissions. We develop a game-...

Reassessing Post-Hospital Conditions of Section 3025 Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in the Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (PPACA) brought many changes to the delivery of the U.S. Health Care System since its inauguration on March 23rd, 2010 (Medicare & Services, 2013a). A change within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is Title III, part III, Section 3025 policy, adopted in 2012. This policy implemented the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) requiring the C...

Financial Implications of Excess Hospital Readmissions

Reducing excess readmissions: promising effect of hospital readmissions reduction program in US hospitals.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the financial penalty effect of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) on 30-day inpatient readmissions for pneumonia (PN), acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and heart failure (HF) among hospitals identified as having excess readmissions. SETTING Short-term, acute care hospitals in the USA. DESIGN Secondary data analysis of publicly available HRRP Supplemen...