Changes to racial disparities in readmission rates after Medicare's hospital readmissions reduction program within safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Research brief (Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics)
- Author(s):
- Chaiyachati, Krisda H., author Qi, Mingyu, author Werner, Rachel M., author
- Contributor(s):
- Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, 2018
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Healthcare Disparities -- statistics & numerical data Hospitals -- statistics & numerical data Patient Readmission -- statistics & numerical data Race Factors Safety-net Providers African Americans Economics, Hospital European Continental Ancestry Group Medicare -- economics Minority Groups -- statistics & numerical data Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- After the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program began enforcing financial penalties, disparities in readmissions between white and black patients widened at safety-net hospitals for conditions not targeted by the program. Disparities were stable for conditions targeted by the program. At non-safety-net hospitals, disparities were unchanged for both targeted and non-targeted conditions.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (2 unnumbered pages))
- Illustrations:
- Portraits
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101738968 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101738968