Thirty-day hospital readmission rates following discharge from postacute rehabilitation in Medicare fee-for-service patients range from 5.8% to 18.8%.
Among postacute rehabilitation facilities providing services to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 30-day readmission rates ranged from 5.8% to 18.8% for selected impairment groups. Further research is needed to understand the causes of readmission.
Ottenbacher et al. (Tue,) studied this question.