MedPAC examines ways to cut readmissions in hospitals
Case Management Weekly, March 14, 2007
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the independent federal body that advises Congress on Medicare issues, is examining options for reducing inpatient readmissions, which it says might save Medicare billions of dollars annually.
MedPAC staff members are investigating whether Medicare could save money and improve quality by reducing inpatient admissions, and have put forth an option of partially withholding hospital payments if an institution's readmission rate is higher than an established benchmark for the industry.
Numerous MedPAC commissioners, however, object to that idea, saying that hospitals are not in control of what happens to patients once they are discharged and that little is known about what constitutes a preventable readmission.
Source: Bureau of National Affairs
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