Complimentary from the publishers of Readmissions News               April 2018
	"For fiscal year 2018, Kaiser Health News has estimated that CMS will withhold $564 million in payments to hospitals under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP)." Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 7, Number 3, March 2018, "Constructive Network Accountability for Readmission Prevention," by Josh Albrechtsen.
	Will Peer Grouping by Patient Socioeconomic Status Fix Medicare HRRP? The Joint Commission Journal of Quality and Patient Safety, April 2018
	National Trends in Readmission Following Inpatient Surgery in the HRRP Era Annals of Surgery, abstract only, April 2018
	Applicability of Reported Readmission Measures to Unreported Conditions Annals of Internal Medicine, March 27, 2018
	Automated notification system cuts follow-up by 5 days, reduces readmissions Clinical Innovation+Technology, March 21, 2018
	Association Between Hospital Participation in MSSP ACOs and Readmission Annals of Surgery, abstract only, March 19, 2018
	Association Between Postdischarge ED Visitation and Readmission Rates Journal of Hospital Medicine, abstract only, March 15, 2018
	Hospital Readmissions With Value-Based Penalties Vary by Provider RevCycle Intelligence, March 13, 2018
	Thirty-Day Readmissions: Physician Attending Type & Social Connectedness American Journal of Managed Care, March 8, 2018
	Program to Cut Hospital Readmissions is Working MedPage Today, March 2, 2018
	Length of Stay and Cost of Pediatric Readmissions Pediatrics, abstract only, March 2018
	How Medicare Advantage Plans are Reducing Hospital Readmissions Carecentrix blog, March 12, 2018 Quick Note: Odds of readmission increase for children as they become adults Notes/Boston Children's Hospital's Clinical Health blog, March 9, 2018
	Reducing Readmissions: Dispatches from an Urban Academic Medical Center by Nupur Mehta, MD, MPH, FACP Maximizing AI's Reach in Readmissions by Ben Cleveland Constructive Network Accountability for Readmission Prevention by Josh Albrechtsen Thought Leaders' Corner: "What methods of reducing preventable readmissions deserve more attention?" Industry News with briefs regarding RippleCARE, the Kinetix Group, LexisNexis, Haylard Health, TeleHealth Services, and Pieces Technologies. Catching up with... Kamal Jethwani, MD MPH  Click here to subscribe to Readmissions News, or find out more
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