Does It Pay to Penalize Hospitals for Excess Readmissions? Intended and Unintended Consequences of Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reductions Program

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1037-1051

  Mellor, Jennifer ^a   Daly, Michael ^a   Smith, Molly ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

hospitals; Medicare; pay for performance; readmissions

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SOCIAL STATUS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VIRGINIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84994065553     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.3382     Document Type: Article

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