Conditions With the Largest Number of Adult Hospital Readmissions by Payer, 2011

In April 2014, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released a statistical brief (#172) that uses readmissions data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) to present the conditions with the largest number of 30-day all-cause readmissions among U.S. hospitals in 2011 and their associated costs. The brief limited the study population to Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older and to individuals aged 18–64 years who were privately insured, uninsured, or covered by Medicaid. The brief includes the ten conditions with the largest number of readmissions for each payer . . .