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MARIA FABRIZIO FOR KHN
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Medicare cut payments to 2,583 hospitals Tuesday, continuing the Affordable Care Act’s eight-year campaign to financially pressure hospitals into reducing the number of patients who return for a second stay within a month.
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severity and broad application of the penalties, which Medicare estimates will
cost hospitals $563 million over a year, follows the trend of the past few
years. Of the 3,129 general hospitals evaluated in the Hospital Readmission
Reduction Program, 83% received a penalty, which will be deducted from each
payment for a Medicare patient stay over the fiscal year that began Tuesday. Read more here.
→ Look Up Your Hospital: Is It Being Penalized By Medicare?
→ Look Up Your Hospital: Is It Being Penalized By Medicare?
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