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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-...

Reducing excess readmissions: promising effect of hospital readmissions reduction program in US hospitals.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the financial penalty effect of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) on 30-day inpatient readmissions for pneumonia (PN), acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and heart failure (HF) among hospitals identified as having excess readmissions. SETTING Short-term, acute care hospitals in the USA. DESIGN Secondary data analysis of publicly available HRRP Supplemen...

Trial of a disease management program to reduce hospital readmissions of the chronically critically ill.

BACKGROUND Patients requiring prolonged periods of intensive care and mechanical ventilation are termed chronically critically ill. They are prone to continued morbidity and mortality after hospital discharge and are at high risk for hospital readmission. Disease management (DM) programs have been shown to be effective in improving both coordination and efficiency of care after hospital dischar...

Reassessing Post-Hospital Conditions of Section 3025 Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in the Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (PPACA) brought many changes to the delivery of the U.S. Health Care System since its inauguration on March 23rd, 2010 (Medicare & Services, 2013a). A change within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is Title III, part III, Section 3025 policy, adopted in 2012. This policy implemented the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) requiring the C...