Medicare Advantage health care utilization: hospital readmissions : trends in Medicare Advantage hospital readmissions
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Data brief (Health Care Cost Institute)
- Author(s):
- Barrette, Eric, author McGraves-Lloyd, Katharine, author
- Contributor(s):
- Health Care Cost Institute, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC, : Health Care Cost Institute, November 2016
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Medicare Part C -- statistics & numerical data Patient Readmission -- statistics & numerical data Patient Readmission -- trends Forecasting Heart Failure Myocardial Infarction Pneumonia Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- KEY FINDINGS. Hospital readmission rates in the Medicare Advantage population declined from 2010 through 2014. The average decrease in hospital readmission was 0.8% per year. Cardiac related admissions, heart failure and AMI, had the highest readmission rate and the largest decrease in rate, respectively. The heart failure readmission rate declined 8.3% from 17.06 to 15.64. The AMI readmission rate decreased 8.9% from 12.41 to 11.30.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (6 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101711621 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101711621