Readmission after intracerebral hemorrhage: Can we really predict the future?

摘要

Historically, Medicare paid for majority of hospital read-missions until the advent of patient protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. Prior to 2008, most major hospitalizations for Medicare patients were reimbursed by Medicare subsidiaries except for readmissions within 24 hours for the same condition until the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended to Congress in June 2008 that hospitals receive from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) a confidential report of their risk-adjusted rehos-pitalization rates and recommended complementary changes in payment rates, so that hospitals with high risk-adjusted rates of rehospitalizations receive lower average case payments (1).