{"id":3805,"date":"2016-08-03T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2016-08-03T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:09:11","slug":"medicares-readmission-penalties-hit-new-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3805","title":{"rendered":"Medicare\u2019s Readmission Penalties Hit New High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The federal government\u2019s penalties on hospitals will reach a new high as Medicare withholds more than half a billion dollars in payments over the next year, records released Tuesday show. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/more-than-half-of-hospitals-to-be-penalized-for-excess-readmissions\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=32420473&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8yn6TMFv8TSYwoB1xefBkn6ZhitwciiEAcc-H9RrX2UCNgOEj-7wSq_koSSVEldM71hzQGbZGLa9d2mFEzR-SY4e5nAg&amp;_hsmi=32420473\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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