Medicare Readmission Rates Showed Meaningful Decline in 2012
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Hospital readmission rates in Medicare Advantage plans.
OBJECTIVES To compute a benchmark for tracking readmission rates among patients enrolled in Medicare's private comprehensive Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and to develop preliminary comparisons with the fee-for-service (FFS) readmission rates. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive data presentation with analytic discussion. METHODS We computed a benchmark for rehospitalization rates among MA patients us...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicare & Medicaid Research Review
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2159-0354
DOI: 10.5600/mmrr.003.02.b01