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Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
Roughly 20 percent of Medicare patients discharged from hospitals in the United States will be readmitted to a hospital within 30 days. These readmissions cost the Medicare program an estimated $12 billion a year and may be preventable. This issue of Legal Notes explains the Affordable Care Act’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) and its implications for regional health care quality improvement collaboratives.