Hospitals
Hospitals
Hospitals
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Medicare Readmission Reduction<br />
Program<br />
• Effective FY 2013<br />
• Conditions Measured:<br />
• FY2013-2014 Heart Attack, Heart Failure and Pneumonia<br />
• FY2015 expand to 4 additional conditions (COPD, CABG,<br />
PTCA, Other Vascular)<br />
• Reduction applies to all base DRG payment amounts<br />
(excludes IME, DSH, outliers) in hospitals with excess<br />
readmissions<br />
• “Excess” defined as ratio of actual to expected readmissions<br />
(risk adjusted)<br />
• Reduction is capped at 1%, 2%, and 3% in initial 3 years<br />
2012 AAMC Annual Meeting