For Medicare patients, a study published in JAMA found no evidence for an increase in in-hospital or post-discharge mortality linked to the implementation of CMS’ Hospital Readmissions Reduction ...

A new Press Ganey white paper highlights an association between HCAHPS performance -- patient experience scores -- and lower rates of readmission. (Performance Insights - The Relationship Between ...

Reducing readmissions is a top-of-mind concern for hospital administrators around the country. Not only does reducing readmissions have a positive influence on patient experience and community health, ...

For more than a decade, hospitals have worked to help older adults avoid repeated inpatient stays, incentivized by a federal program that cuts Medicare reimbursements if hospitals have ...

More than half a billion dollars. That’s the recently released total for readmission penalties the federal government will be withholding in Medicare payments from over half the nation’s hospitals in ...

For more than a decade, hospitals have worked to help older adults avoid repeated inpatient stays, incentivized by a federal program that cuts Medicare reimbursements if hospitals have ...

New offering integrates Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform with predictive analytics, care management workflows, and agentic AI capabilities to enable smarter, more scalable interventions SAN ...

Hospitals are facing real issues regarding readmissions by the homeless. With nowhere to go and little to survive on, members of this population suffering from medical problems face a continued march ...

The University of Michigan’s flagship hospital has reduced its Medicare/Medicaid penalties for hospital readmissions over the past two years, reflecting sustained efforts to improve patient outcomes ...

This study found that certain characteristics in linked electronic health record data across episodes of care can help identify patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias at high risk of 30 ...