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Brooke Murphy: 5 Things to Know About CMS Readmissions Penalties

Submitted by ASchreiber on Wed, 08/31/2016 - 15:58


  1. Medicare expects hospitals' penalties to total $528 million in 2016.
  2. CMS will penalize 2,597 facilities in FY 2017, five more hospitals than last year.
  3. 1,621 hospitals have faced penalties every year in the five years of the program.
  4. 49 hospitals will receive the maximum reduction in reimbursement, or 3% of the Medicare rate. That is up from 38 hospitals that received the largest penalty last year.
  5. The average reduction to hospitals was 0.73% for each payment, up from 0.61% last year.


Source: Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality, August 4, 2016
Source URL: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/cms-penalizes-2...



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