Thursday, August 14, 2008

Medicare Could Save Billions By Cutting Re-Hospitalization

One possible sweet spot for trimming the growing cost of Medicare: repeat hospital visits.
The percentage of patients who return to the hospital with in 30 days of being discharged could be cut dramatically, says an op-ed in this morning’s Boston Globe. A MedPAC study found that potentially preventable readmissions cost Medicare some $12 billion in [...]

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