Since its inception in October 2012, Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
has fined nearly 2,200 hospitals over $500 million. While the current reimbursement
model penalizes all 30-day readmissions equally, critics argue that differences in
quality may be reflected by the duration between discharge and readmission (readmission
interval). We sought to investigate the impact of readmission interval in surgical
patients on other markers of quality such as mortality.
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