Hospital Readmissions: Federal Policy Must Stop Interfering with System Thinking
In our experience in case management, both in hospitals and in managed care organizations, we have found many reasons why patients are readmitted to hospitals.
In our experience in case management, both in hospitals and in managed care organizations, we have found many reasons why patients are readmitted to hospitals.
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine implies that because 50% of re-admitted patients had no outpatient physician visits their care was sub-optimal and that somehow hospitals are responsible and should be financially punished for high rates of re-admitted patients. This logic is flawed.