All-Cause Hospital Readmissions Among Non-Elderly Medicaid Patients, 2007

In April 2010, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published a statistical brief (#89) presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on all-cause readmissions among non-elderly Medicaid patients in 2007. HCUP data are all-payer hospital discharge data, which offer the advantage of capturing data from both FFS and managed care Medicaid enrollees, as comparison data for other payers.

For this Statistical Brief, readmission rate is defined as the percentage of patients who have at least one readmission within a certain number of days after being discharged alive from their initial hospital stay . . .