Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
CMS Dedicates Tens Of Millions To Reducing Hospitalizations In Newest Funding Push
Published on Thu Oct 01, 2015
A new funding push to reduce hospital readmissions underscores the measure’s importance for your referring hospital partners. CMS is sinking another $110 million into efforts to reduce hospital readmissions and to prevent hospitalacquired conditions, it says in a release.
“Initiatives like the Partnership for Patients, Accountable Care Organizations, Quality Improvement Organizations, and others have helped reduce hospital readmissions in Medicare by nearly 8 percent between January 2012 and December 2013 — translating into 150,000 fewer readmissions,” CMS stresses in the release.
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Home Health & Hospice Week
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