Potentially Preventable Hospital Readmissions Among Medicaid Recipients With Mental Health And/Or Substance Abuse Health Conditions Compared With All Others: New York State, 2007

In January 2012, the New York State Department of Health released a statistical brief (#3) focused on potentially preventable readmission (PPR) rate for hospitalized Medicaid recipients with a mental health and/or substance abuse in New York State in 2007. The report compares the Article 28 inpatient population with mental health, substance abuse, and both mental health and substance abuse health conditions with all other hospitalized recipients in terms of their PPR rates, the medical conditions at the initial admission most frequently associated with subsequent PPRs, the medical conditions present at readmission for recipients who experienced a PPR, and the . . .