Medicare Advantage health care utilization : hospital readmissions : trends in Medicare Advantage hospital readmissions Data brief (Health Care Cost Institute) Barrette, Eric, author. McGraves-Lloyd, Katharine, author. Medicare Part C -- statistics & numerical data Patient Readmission -- statistics & numerical data Patient Readmission -- trends KEY FINDINGS. Hospital readmission rates in the Medicare Advantage population declined from 2010 through 2014. The average decrease in hospital readmission was 0.8% per year. Cardiac related admissions, heart failure and AMI, had the highest readmission rate and the largest decrease in rate, respectively. The heart failure readmission rate declined 8.3% from 17.06 to 15.64. The AMI readmission rate decreased 8.9% from 12.41 to 11.30. Washington, DC, : Health Care Cost Institute, November 2016 Health Care Cost Institute, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (6 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-101711621-pdf 101711621 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101711621 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0