The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has trumpeted the recent drop in hospital readmissions among Medicare patients as a major advance for patient safety. But lost amidst the celebration is the fact that hospitals are increasingly “observing”
Read More...
Read the complete post at http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/08/27/quality-improvement-become-good-at-cheating-and-you-never-need-to-become-good-at-anything-else/
Posted
Aug 27 2015, 05:47 AM
by
Health Affairs Blog
Filed under: Health IT, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Emergency Medicine, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, pay-for-performance, CMS, Observation, Hospital readmissions, Discharge