Financing Change the Key to Reducing Readmissions

March 17, 2012
In my post last week, The Answer Is... all members, I wrote about both the cost of readmissions to our health care system (with 20% of Medicare patients discharged from a hospital readmitted within 30 days) and the financing realignments – ACOs, bundled payments, and health homes – that are developing to reduce that readmission rate.

I got a hearty confirmation of the need for the realignment of financing and compensation to address this issue from OPEN MINDS Circle reader Richard Maye. He wrote:

My experience is in aligning the goals of the hospitals that I work with the . . .