Last year, 2,225 hospitals had their payments reduced through Oct. 1 this year because of excess readmissions, thanks to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program established by the Patient ...

As of October 2015, 2,592 hospitals will lose a combined total of $420 million in reimbursements, penalized for failing to meet readmissions targets set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

hospital wristband Racial disparities may be widening within safety-net hospitals for non-HRRP-targeted conditions. After Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) began enforcing ...

ANAHEIM, CA — Controversial new research suggests the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) may have slowed the revolving door for Medicare ...

Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program is the largest pay-for-performance initiative ever implemented to improve care in SNFs. The program ties SNF performance in ...

NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - CVS Health's Aetna insurance arm will expand a nascent program pairing members in its privately run Medicare plans with nurses - an effort the company says will reduce ...

Virtual patient monitoring in telehealth has become a transformative tool for improving both patient care and provider workflows. By enabling continuous, real-time tracking of a patient's vital signs ...

Rewards tied to improved hospital readmission rates were so small and so variable from year to year that they likely contributed to a “lack of effectiveness” for a key nursing home financial incentive ...

Long Island hospitals have made strides in preventing hospital-acquired infections and curbing readmissions of recently discharged patients, but their performance is still costing them millions in ...

A new study published in JAMA Health Forum found that bundled payment programs for outpatient spine surgery significantly reduced healthcare costs and lowered readmission rates among Medicare ...