Obamacare Starts To Punish Hospitals With Highest Re-Admission Rates

 

"Implementation of ObamaCare’s Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program is among several provisions of a final rule updating the Medicare payment schedule for general acute care and long-term care hospitals in fiscal 2015. Under the rule, hospitals with the highest rates of hospital-acquired conditions would see their Medicare inpatient payments cut by one percent. The regulations also increase the maximum payment reduction from 2 percent to 3 percent for hospitals with the highest readmission rates." Benjamin Goad in The Hill