Dr. Stephen Jencks, a consultant who was one of the first researchers to document the nations high readmission rates, said he was impressed overall by how much the fines have prompted hospitals to concentrate on their patients health after discharge.
Date: Oct 04, 2014
Category: Health
Source: Google
Hospitals aim to reduce the number of patients readmitted after discharge
"There's a very strong case to be made that if you want to change something as important as readmission, you've got to look at every lever you've got," says Stephen Jencks, a physician and lead author of the NEJM study. "Payment is a very important one, but by no means the only one."