According to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), hospital readmission rates have fallen following implementation of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), and HRRP did not ...

Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these ...

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program has had a major impact on hospital leaders’ efforts to reduce readmission rates; however, important concerns about the program remain. Objectives: To ...

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) is a Medicare value-based purchasing program that reduces payments to hospitals with excess readmissions. This performance program penalizes ...

Since the implementation of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), readmissions have declined for Medicare patients with conditions targeted by the policy (acute myocardial infarction, ...

The implementation of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program reduced the rate of readmissions, but also simultaneously increased the mortality rate of Medicare patients with heart failure, ...

HealthDay News — Implementation of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) is associated with a reduction in readmissions for patients with heart failure but also with an increase in ...

Incorporated into the Affordable Care Act in 2012, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) is a Medicare value-based purchasing program that aims to reduce payments to hospitals with excess ...

Implementation of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program was associated with a decrease in 30-day readmissions in patients with COPD following their hospital discharge. Implementation of the ...

CMS' readmissions reduction program isn't responsible for an uptick in observation stays. That, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) June report (PDF), which was submitted to ...

The reduction in readmission rates is about half as large as previously reported, researchers say. Gains from Medicare's most prominent readmissions reduction initiative have been overstated, recent ...

New evidence links CMS’ Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program to unintended harm in some patients, a JAMA editorial suggests. Researchers analyzed 8.3 million hospitalizations of Medicare enrollees ...