{"id":17076,"date":"2020-11-02T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17076"},"modified":"2020-11-02T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T13:08:07","slug":"medicare-fines-half-of-hospitals-for-readmitting-too-many-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17076","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Fines Half of Hospitals for Readmitting Too Many Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Nearly half the nation\u2019s hospitals, many of which are still wrestling with the financial fallout of the unexpected coronavirus, will get lower payments for all Medicare patients because of their history of readmitting patients, federal records show.<\/p>\n

The penalties are the ninth annual round of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program created as part of the Affordable Care Act\u2019s broader effort to improve quality and lower costs. The latest penalties are calculated using each hospital case history between July 2016 and June 2019, so the flood of coronavirus patients that have swamped hospitals this year were not included.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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