The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program—learning from failure of a healthcare policy

A Gupta, GC Fonarow - European journal of heart failure, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Heart failure is the leading cause of readmissions in patients aged≥ 65 years with high
associated societal and economic costs. The utilization metric of 30‐day risk standardized …

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Nationwide Perspectives and Recommendations: A JACC: Heart Failure Position Paper

MA Psotka, GC Fonarow, LA Allen, KE Joynt Maddox… - JACC: Heart Failure, 2020 - jacc.org
The mandatory federal pay-for-performance Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
(HRRP) was created to decrease 30-day hospital readmissions by instituting accountability …

Association of the hospital readmissions reduction program with mortality among medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and …

RK Wadhera, KEJ Maddox, JH Wasfy, S Haneuse… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been associated
with a reduction in readmission rates for heart failure (HF), acute myocardial infarction (AMI) …

Diagnosing physician error: A machine learning approach to low-value health care

S Mullainathan, Z Obermeyer - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use machine learning as a tool to study decision making, focusing specifically on how
physicians diagnose heart attack. An algorithmic model of a patient's probability of heart …

Decreases in readmissions credited to Medicare's program to reduce hospital readmissions have been overstated

C Ody, L Msall, LS Dafny, DC Grabowski… - Health Affairs, 2019 - healthaffairs.org
Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with
lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care …

Association of the hospital readmissions reduction program with mortality during and after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia

R Khera, K Dharmarajan, Y Wang, Z Lin… - JAMA network …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The US Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) was associated
with reduced readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for acute myocardial …

Trends in outpatient care for Medicare beneficiaries and implications for primary care, 2000 to 2019

ML Barnett, A Bitton, J Souza… - Annals of internal …, 2021 - acpjournals.org
This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a
Supplement. Background: Despite the central role of primary care in improving health …

Trends in visits to acute care venues for treatment of low-acuity conditions in the United States from 2008 to 2015

SJ Poon, JD Schuur, A Mehrotra - JAMA internal medicine, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Over the past 2 decades, a variety of new care options have emerged for acute
care, including urgent care centers, retail clinics, and telemedicine. Trends in the utilization …

Hospital revisits within 30 days after discharge for medical conditions targeted by the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in the United States: national …

RK Wadhera, KEJ Maddox, DS Kazi, C Shen, RW Yeh - bmj, 2019 - bmj.com
Objective To determine any changes in total hospital revisits within 30 days of discharge
after a hospital stay for medical conditions targeted by the Hospital Readmissions Reduction …

Association of historic housing policy, modern day neighborhood deprivation and outcomes after inpatient hospitalization

A Diaz, R O'Reggio, M Norman, JR Thumma… - Annals of …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To evaluate the association of historical racist housing policies and modern-day
healthcare outcomes. Summary of Background Data: In 1933 the United States Government …