Adjusting for social risk factors impacts performance and penalties in the hospital readmissions red...
Adjusting for social risk factors impacts performance and penalties in the hospital readmissions reduction program
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United States: Health Research and Educational Trust
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English
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United States: Health Research and Educational Trust
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Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) does not account for social risk factors in risk adjustment, and this may lead the program to unfairly penalize safety‐net hospitals. Our objective was to determine the impact of adjusting for social risk factors on HRRP penalties.
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Retrospective cohort study.<...
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Adjusting for social risk factors impacts performance and penalties in the hospital readmissions reduction program
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_6407348
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_6407348
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0017-9124
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1475-6773
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10.1111/1475-6773.13133
