Hospital quality contributes to readmission rates independent of factors involving patients, and the observed readmission rate was higher for patients admitted to worse-performing hospitals.
Reductions in hospital readmissions as a part of ACA did not lead to higher mortality rates, and may even have lowered death rates.
There are no data evaluating the association between this metric and quality-of-care measures or long-term clinical outcomes.
There was a reduction in readmissions in 4 of 6 hospitals, with positive effects for a limited number of conditions.
The risk of early readmission from post-acute care facility decreases with longer LOS at index hospitalization.
There were greater reductions in readmission rates compared with those at non-penalized hospitals.
Medicare’s HRRP has shown a reduction in readmissions for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia in its first 3 years.
This study found the readmission rate to be 2.8% for hysterectomies in benign cases.
