Why the study?
Does the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program reduce thirty-day readmissions in safety-net hospitals?
Does the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program reduce thirty-day readmissions in safety-net hospitals?
The HRRP effectively incentivized safety-net hospitals to reduce 30-day readmissions for key conditions including heart attack and heart failure, narrowing the performance gap with other hospitals.
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Supports HRRP incentives at safety-net hospitals; leaves open whether reductions are causal or sustained beyond three years.
Carey et al. (2016) studied this question.
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