Patients might leave the hospital with discharge instructions to ensure they stay on the mend, but there’s plenty that could go wrong once they get home. Medication, for instance, can prove ...

Thousands of hospitals across the U.S. yesterday received welcome news thanks to the government considering the battle against COVID-19 when determining fines for poor readmission rates. Those fines, ...

Oct. 1--TUPELO-- Ten Northeast Mississippi hospitals will lose a percentage of their Medicare payments in the coming year because of high readmission rates. In the region, the penalties range as high ...

CMS is penalizing the majority of the nations’ hospitals — 2,592 hospitals — for excess 30-day readmissions by shaving off a portion of their Medicare reimbursements. In the fourth year of the ...

For the second time in 6 months, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials have revised readmission penalties for hospitals. In doing so, approximately 1200 hospitals are now subject to ...

Skilled nursing operators will forgo bonuses for a second straight year for limiting hospital readmissions, a regulatory pause one compliance expert says will lead to losses all around. The Centers ...

The federal government's effort to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions is ending its first decade with Medicare cutting payments to nearly half the nation's hospitals. Here are the ...

While many of the causes for readmission are out of a hospital's control, the message is clear, hospitals will be obligated to get involved in the whole spectrum of care for a patient and will be held ...

As 2026 draws closer, so too does the start of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS)  mandatory bundled ...

Readmission rate improvements often attributed to an Affordable Care Act policy fining hospitals with higher-than-expected readmissions may actually be the result of changes in how visits were being ...

The federal government’s effort to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions is ending its first decade with Medicare cutting payments to nearly half the nation’s hospitals. In its 10th ...