tci Part B Insider - 2009 Issue 14

PHYSICIAN NOTES: CMS Establishes Care Transitions Project to Cut Down on Hospital Readmissions

Plus: One Medicare carrier finds a quick fix for erroneously rejected physician service claims submitted for hospice care. CMS wants to get a handle on the number of Medicare patients that are readmitted to hospitals following discharge -- and has chosen 14 communities that will serve as models for new approaches to this growing problem. Our data show that nearly one in five patients who leave the hospital today will be readmitted within the next month, and that more than three quarters of these readmissions are potentially preventable,said Charlene Frizzera,CMS acting administrator, in an April 13 statement...

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