Brief Published Dec. 19, 2018 Dive Brief: Consumers are getting “mixed messages” from the CMS Hospital Compare website and penalties levied by the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, undermining their ability to shop for quality care, according to a study in The American Journal of Managed Care. The researchers compared hospital grades posted on Hospital Compare for… Read More »
A woman’s life was turned “upside-down” when major surgery was cancelled four times by a hospital suffering from extreme pressures. Katie Flack had already been prepared for surgery when the Royal Cornwall Hospital cancelled her hysterectomy. The hospital declared the highest alert – Opel 4 – on more than 130 days in a 12-month period.… Read More »
Pagosa Springs Medical Center in Colorado, a critical access hospital, will pay $ 111,400 to the HHS Office for Civil Rights. The small provider is being hit after neglecting to terminate access to protected heath information after an employee left the practice. A complaint sent to OCR alleged the former employee continued to have access… Read More »
Print this page MONDAY, Dec. 10, 2018 — No one wants to spend the holidays in a hospital bed, but heading home might not be a good idea, new research suggests. The risk of hospital readmission or death was higher among patients who were discharged over the two-week December holiday period than at other times… Read More »
By KIP SULLIVAN JD The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), one of numerous pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes authorized by the Affordable Care Act, was sprung on the Medicare fee-for-service population on October 1, 2012 without being pre-tested and with no other evidence indicating what it is hospitals are supposed to do to reduce readmissions. Research on the… Read More »