Industry Notes:
Help Hospitals With Readmissions For P4P
Published on Fri Jan 14, 2011
Hospitals soon may have extra incentive to line up home care services for their discharged patients. CMS has issued a proposed rule that would influence hospital payments via a "value-based purchasing" system (ie, pay for performance) in 2013. Among the hospital P4P elements: rates of readmission. Home care agencies could help improve readmission rates, industry proponents say. The hospital P4P proposed rule is online at
www.ofr.gov/inspection.aspx.