The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program — Time for a Reboot
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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-...
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عنوان ژورنال: New England Journal of Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0028-4793,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejmp1901225