New Jersey Home Health Readmissions Report

The report was released in January 2015 by the Home Care and Hospice Association of New Jersey (HCHANJ). The research was conducted by Quality Innovation Network on behalf of HCHANJ, which commissioned the report to understand the relationship between home health services and the state’s higher than average 30-day readmission rates among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries. The researchers examined Medicare FFS claims for New Jersey beneficiaries discharged from a New Jersey hospital in 2014; they excluded beneficiaries who had been receiving home health care services prior to the initial hospital admission. The data set included 210,865 . . .