Excluding Observation Stays from Readmission Rates — What Quality Measures Are Missing

For the past several years, health care reform efforts have focused on reducing preventable hospital readmissions. Most notably, in 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introduced the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), which penalizes hospitals that have…

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