This Wall Street Journal article by Matthew Heimer explains that the federal agency that administers Medicare will be reducing its reimbursement payments to 2,225 U.S. hospitals this fiscal year as a penalty for making insufficient progress on reducing readmission rates for the patients they treat. Some health care reformers feel that readmission can be a meaningful measure of the quality and cost of hospital care. Click the link below to read the whole article.
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