Obamacare punishes hospitals for saving the lives of patients with heart disease Obama’s health care reform contains a provision that reduces Medicare payments to hospitals with high 30-day readmission rates. Sunil Kripalani, MD, a professor with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said of this, “Among patients with heart failure, hospitals that have higher readmission rates actually have lower mortality rates. So, which would we rather have — a hospital readmission or a death?”
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 04:51:34 +0000
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