By IDSE News Staff
Imposing financial penalties to reduce hospital readmissions appears to be fairly costly for patients. A new study found an increase in post-discharge deaths among patients with pneumonia, myocardial infarction (MI) and heart failure (HF) (JAMA 2018 Dec 25. [Epub ahead of print]).
The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) was established in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act and required that beginning in 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services