Thirty-day hospital readmission rates dropped in all states except Vermont between 2010 and 2015, according to data published recently by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
In a mid-September blog post, CMS Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Medical Officer Patrick Conway, M.D., credited federal initiatives with the 8% decrease in national readmission rates between 2010 and 2015.
Readmission rates in 11 states fell by more than 10%. While Vermont’s rate didn’t drop, it did virtually hold steady.
Those declines translate to roughly 565,000 avoided readmissions since 2010, Conway said.
From the November 01, 2016 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News