{"id":269,"date":"2015-08-03T16:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=269"},"modified":"2015-08-03T16:47:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T20:47:26","slug":"half-of-the-nations-hospitals-including-most-in-st-louis-face-medicare-readmission-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Half of the nation&#8217;s hospitals, including most in St. Louis, face Medicare readmission penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<span class=\"byline\">By &#8211; Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Once again, the majority of the nation\u2019s hospitals are being penalized by Medicare for having patients frequently return within a month of discharge \u2014 this time losing a combined $420 million, government records show.\u00a0In the fourth year of federal readmission penalties, 2,592 hospitals will receive lower payments for every Medicare patient that stays in the hospital \u2014 readmitted or not \u2014 starting in October. The <strong>Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program<\/strong>, created by the Affordable Care Act, was designed to make hospitals pay closer attention to what happens to their patients after they get discharged. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/local\/half-of-the-nation-s-hospitals-including-most-in-st\/article_e2e4fc53-b3a9-52f3-8fed-c6d6247b77a8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News)\u00a0 Once again, the majority of the nation\u2019s hospitals are being penalized by Medicare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}