Medicare Hospital Readmissions: Issues, Policy Options and PPACA (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Sept. 21, 2010 |
| Report Number |
R40972 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
Julie Stone, Specialist in Health Care Financing; Geoffrey Hoffman, Analyst in Health Care Financing |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
Summary:
This report is intended to help Congress navigate the complex issue of hospital readmissions.After helping to define the issues, we discuss some of the diverse causes of hospital readmissions.We also provide a summary of approaches used to distinguish which hospital readmissions mightbe preventable. Finally, to help Congress evaluate strategies to reduce readmissions, we include adiscussion of various strategies to lower the incidence of Medicare-covered hospitalreadmissions. The report is largely conceptual and does not track legislation moving through theHouse and Senate. It does, however, summarize the PPACA changes to the Medicare programthat are intended, among other things, to reduce hospital readmissions.
