Readmission

Hospital readmission incentives on hold, and ‘no one wins but Medicare’ … $10.3 million settlement sends ‘strong warning’ to employers with vaccine mandates, attorney says … NY Health Department...

Readmission rates higher for preoperative marijuana users compared with nonusers at 90 days and at one year following total knee arthroplasty

Readmission rates are being attacked from all sides, and that includes by information technology and software suppliers. Here’s a provider guide to ‘teching-up’

A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services program created to reduce hospital readmissions among nursing home residents has shown positive results after three years, the agency announced.

Medline Industries and Real Time Medical Systems announced a partnership in October geared to reducing hospital readmissions.

Assisted living quality initiatives will focus on increasing satisfaction while reducing turnover, re-admissions and antipsychotics use, the National Center for Assisted Living announced on Tuesday.

House and Senate lawmakers on Tuesday double-teamed Congress with companion bills aimed at mitigating hospital readmission penalties — a positive move for nursing homes because it would ease the invariable...

Plans are being put into place that will also penalize the skilled nursing facility for avoidable readmissions. As such, to distinguish oneself as a desirable downstream provider, one must effectively...

A skilled nursing facility that scores well on quality measures is not necessarily reducing residents’ risk of death or readmission within 30 days of arriving from a hospital, according to findings...

While there seems to be some disagreement over Malcolm Gladwell’s posit that doing something for 10,000 hours will make you a master at it, the idea that practice leads at least to improvement has...