The federal government has eased its annual punishments for hospitals with higher-than-expected readmission rates in an acknowledgment of the upheaval the covid-19 pandemic has caused, resulting in the lightest penalties since 2014.
Federal officials said they are penalizing 2,273 hospitals, the fewest since September 2014 to compensate for the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Federal officials said they are penalizing 2273 hospitals, the fewest since 2014. Driving the decline was a change in the formula to compensate for the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The authors of this Viewpoint argue that the focus on hospital readmission rates as a measure of quality during the past decade, although undoubtedly leading to