COPD experts advise Medicare penalties will harm exposed patients


Lung illness experts contend that new policies concerning sanatorium readmissions for ongoing opposed pulmonary illness will reprove exposed patients.

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The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services cruise a rehospitalization rate of Medicare patients “excessive,” with 1 in 5 being rehospitalized within 30 days of being discharged.

Last week, a sovereign supervision announced fines for some-more than 2,600 hospitals given too many Medicare patients being treated for certain conditions are being readmitted within 30 days of being sent home.

An research by University of Michigan (U-M) lung illness experts, published in a American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, describes how hospitals that caring for bad and minority patients will feel these penalties some-more deeply.

The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) cruise a stream rehospitalization rate of Medicare patients “excessive,” with 1 in 5 being rehospitalized within 30 days of being discharged.

As partial of their Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, CMS have, given 2012, reduced payments to hospitals that vaunt extreme readmission rates for heart failure, heart conflict or pneumonia patients. The supervision have now combined elective hip and knee deputy readmissions and ongoing lung illness readmissions to these penalties.

Dr. Michael Sjoding, a pulmonary