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Brooke Murphy: 5 Things to Know About CMS Readmissions Penalties
Submitted By ASchreiber, Created 08/31/2016 - 15:58
- Medicare expects hospitals' penalties to total $528 million in 2016.
- CMS will penalize 2,597 facilities in FY 2017, five more hospitals than last year.
- 1,621 hospitals have faced penalties every year in the five years of the program.
- 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.
- 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...