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Readmission rates in not-for-profit vs. proprietary hospitals before and after the hospital readmission reduction program implementation

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, January 2018
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Title
Readmission rates in not-for-profit vs. proprietary hospitals before and after the hospital readmission reduction program implementation
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BMC Health Services Research, January 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12913-018-2840-4
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Lauren E. Birmingham, Willie H. Oglesby

Abstract

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) to penalize hospitals with excessive 30-day hospital readmissions of Medicare enrollees for specific conditions. This policy was aimed at increasing the quality of care delivered to patients and decreasing the amount of money paid for potentially preventable hospital readmissions. While it has been established that the number of 30-day hospital readmissions decreased after program implementation, it is unknown whether this effect occurred equally between not-for-profit and proprietary hospitals. The aim of this study was to determine whether or not the HRRP decreased readmission rates equally between not-for-profit and proprietary hospitals between 2010 and 2012. Data on readmissions came from the Dartmouth Atlas and hospital ownership data came from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Data were joined using the Medicare provider number. Using a difference-in-differences approach, bivariate and regression analyses were conducted to compare readmission rates between not-for-profit and proprietary hospitals between 2010 and 2012 and were adjusted for hospital characteristics. In 2010, prior to program implementation, unadjusted readmission rates for proprietary and not-for-profit hospitals were 16.16% and 15.78%, respectively. In 2012, following program implementation, 30-day readmission rates dropped to 15.76% and 15.29% for proprietary and not-for-profit hospitals. The data suggest that the implementation of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program had similar effects on not-for-profit and proprietary hospitals with respect to readmission rates, even after adjusting for confounders. Although not-for-profit hospitals had lower 30-day readmission rates than proprietary hospitals in both 2010 and 2012, they both decreased after the implementation of the HRRP and the decreases were not statistically significantly different. Thus, this study suggests that the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program was equally effective in reducing readmission rates, despite ownership status.

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Unknown 36 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 14%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Researcher 4 11%
Other 3 8%
Other 8 22%
Unknown 7 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 25%
Social Sciences 5 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 8%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 8 22%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 May 2022.
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#1,325
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#70,393
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#41
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