ACA program to reduce hospital readmissions not all it’s cracked up to be

ACA program to reduce hospital readmissions not all it’s cracked up to be

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- ANN ARBOR--A federal program that has been shown to reduce hospital readmissions may not have been as successful as it appears, University of Michigan researchers report in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine.

The researchers from the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation and the School of Public Health, found that 63 percent of the reduction in patients heading back to the hospital, as reported under the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, could be attributed to the way diagnoses were coded.

“While there is clear evidence that readmission rates dropped after the HRRP, the amount may not be as much as we initially thought,” said first author Andrew Ibrahim, …

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(2017-12-01), ACA program to reduce hospital readmissions not all it’s cracked up to be, Insurance Weekly News, 28, ISSN: 1944-2297, BUTTER® ID: 014778428