"The General Medicine clinicians will be supported by the staff of the nursing facilities and our own care coordinators. The ultimate goal of the Integrated Care Program is to improve care coordination via a person-centered, team-oriented delivery system which addresses individual needs.”
2015 Hospital Readmission Penalties
As a part of the Affordable Care Act, the Readmissions Reduction Program aims to lower 30-day hospital readmission rates for patients discharged from the same or another subsection hospital. Each year, hospitals that have not improved quality of care to the standards set by CMS are subject to hospital readmission penalties, which will decrease reimbursements received throughout the entirety of the designated year.
In the third round of hospital readmission penalties, happening in 2015, 2,610 hospitals will receive reduced CMS payments.
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