Posted on May 31st, 2010 in Finance
Studies show that 10% of Medicare beneficiary’s early hospital readmissions were preventable. “There were 301,017 readmissions that were clinically related” (Norbert I. Goldfield, 2008) to a previous admission which was classified as be preventable or unnecessary. Statistics show that hospitals that have been effective in creating discharge plans experience lower readmission rates. Although the need [...]
