Hospital Guide To Reducing Medicaid Readmissions

In August 2014, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published a guide for hospitals to identify ways evidence-based strategies to reduce readmissions can be adapted or expanded to better address the transitional care needs of the adult Medicaid population. Adult Medicaid patients who are not hospitalized for childbirth experience readmission rates that are as high as or higher than those experienced by Medicare beneficiaries. This guide was developed over a 2-year period using quality improvement methodologies to identify:

Clinical case for improvement
Similar and distinct transitional care needs of the population
Adaptations to existing best practices . . .