Shoulder replacement is the third most common joint-replacement surgery in the U.S. and is likely to become more common as ...

USC researchers continue to uncover new insights from a five-year project launched by health services policy and management associate professor Peiyin Hung and health promotion, education, and ...

New research harnessed CMS data to show the connection between high-quality care and lower readmission rates. Researchers examined a hospitalwide readmissions cohort of more than 2.7 million Medicare ...

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has joined the chorus calling for changes in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) to avoid penalizing facilities for readmission factors beyond ...

Patients admitted to hospitals during periods of inadequate nurse staffing relative to typical levels experience significantly higher in-hospital mortality, particularly during the day shift.An ...

Between 2011 and 2014, readmission rates were higher for patients in Medicare Advantage than for their peers in traditional Medicare plans, a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds.

After the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, hospital readmission rates decreased nationwide, most dramatically for the lowest-performing hospitals, according to an analysis of readmissions ...

To gauge readmission risk for patients with acute myocardial infarction, clinicians can easily assess seven variables during the first day of a hospital admission. A new risk model provides a simple ...

Average hospital readmission costs for 18 diagnoses Hospital readmission costs were higher than initial admission costs for about two-thirds of common diagnoses in 2016, according to a Healthcare Cost ...

Readmissions are both a clinical and financial problem. CMS began penalizing hospitals for 30-day readmissions Oct. 1, 2012 at 1 percent, upping the penalty rate to 2 percent for fiscal year 2014.