The Kaiser Foundation reports that 2,211 hospitals will forfeit about 280 million dollars in readmission penalties over the next year (2013) after failing to prevent their patients from returning too soon after discharge. Here is the Medicare readmission penalty algorithm formula being implemented by CMS to determine which hospitals to penalize and how much to penalize them. As you can see, it's complicated. However, here at The Happy Hospitalist, we have rigorously analyzed data and have concluded CMS should stop messing around with all these complicated formulas and simply penalize hospitals based on how black or how white the state's population is. This data is pretty black and white to me. I have taken the liberty of comparing Nebraska hospitals against Louisiana hospitals.
In case you're interested in how your hospital fared with regards to Medicare's readmission penalty program, here is the list of every qualifying hospital in the country, organized by state, showing their reduction penalty for 2013. How did your hospital do?
"White States"
"Black States"
In case you're interested in how your hospital fared with regards to Medicare's readmission penalty program, here is the list of every qualifying hospital in the country, organized by state, showing their reduction penalty for 2013. How did your hospital do?
"White States"
"Black States"
