Population
Patients admitted to 129 Veterans Health Administration hospitals between 2005 and 2009 for acute myocardial…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30-day
Authors
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Readmission-linked cost surges warrant attention in bundled payment models; leaves open optimal risk-adjustment strategies for these episodes.
Hospital readmission rates in the previous quarter do not predict individual patient risk-adjusted readmission, and readmissions significantly increase 30-day episode costs, indicating that bundled payments would need to be raised to cover these costs.
Hockenberry et al. (2012) studied this question.
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