Hospital Readmissions

Lee A. Resnick, MD, FAAFP Early outpatient follow-up after hospital admission has been documented to be an important factor in reducing hospital readmission rates. Readmissions are also well known to cost billions of dollars annually. The problem with readmissions spans all socioeconomic classes and impacts all payors, public and private. As of 2013, the CMS began penalizing hospitals for readmissions, thus efforts are being made to limit these rates as much as possible. Numerous studies …

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