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Medicare to Tie Nursing Home Payments to Hospital Readmission Rates

Will trying to curb the "boomerang effect" place more patients at risk?
Posted on July 25, 2018 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds

Beginning this October, Medicare will begin penalizing nursing homes with higher than average hospital readmission rates, according to a June 19 report in MedPage Today. In an ongoing effort to curb preventable hospital readmissions, the agency will reward nursing homes … Continue reading →

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