Sentences with phrase «hospital readmissions account»

Hospital readmissions account for a large share of healthcare spending in the U.S., including more than $ 17 billion of Medicare costs each year.

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A new study shows that if socioeconomic factors related to patients» income and education are taken into account, differences in readmission rates among hospitals may not be as great as Medicare data indicate.

3M identifies readmissions with diagnoses that are clinically related to those prompting the initial admission, to flag those patients whose readmission could have been avoided, and then generates hospital level rates of avoidable readmissions, taking account of population case mix and illness severity.