Hospice News July 5, 2022
The availability of post-acute resources, including hospice and palliative care, has a significant impact on hospital readmissions, but greater coordination among providers could drive improvement.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) penalizes hospitals for readmissions rates that exceed certain thresholds, but the agency does not account for the supply of post-acute providers available to patients in a providers’ service region.
Thus, conditions in the community likely impact readmission rates and hospitals could benefit from work to improve local access to post-acute care, the authors of a study published today in Health Affairs concluded.
This can include hospice and palliative care, both of which have been found to reduce readmissions, according to lead author Kenneth Griffith, assistant...
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