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NCHC Praises Ways and Means’ Reforms to Hospital Readmissions Policy

May 24, 2016 By Nisha Bhat

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“The important reforms to Medicare’s readmissions penalties, as advanced by Representatives Tiberi and McDermott, will enable Medicare to continue reducing readmission rates, while addressing disproportionate and biased penalties against providers serving lower-income populations.

“Improving health care affordability requires improving the value of care delivered—especially in the communities and populations where costly chronic conditions are more prevalent. But it is a fact, documented by MedPAC and peer-reviewed studies, that HRRP’s current methodology penalizes providers serving lower-income patients, draining resources from the places that need them most. In the long-run, continuation of that methodology would generate higher rather than lower cost of care for those patients.”

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NCHC Praises Reforms to Hospital Readmissions Policy

May 24, 2016 By Nisha Bhat

Contact: Nisha Bhat
                National Coalition on Health Care
                nbhat@nchc.org
                202-638-7151, ext. 106

NCHC Praises Ways and Means’ Reforms to Hospital Readmissions Policy
Statement by NCHC President and CEO John Rother on reforms to Medicare’s Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), included in The Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act (H.R. 5273), scheduled for markup today by the full House Ways and Means Committee

“The important reforms to Medicare’s readmissions penalties, as advanced by Representatives Tiberi and McDermott, will enable Medicare to continue reducing readmission rates, while addressing disproportionate and biased penalties against providers serving lower-income populations.

“Improving health care affordability requires improving the value of care delivered—especially in the communities and populations where costly chronic conditions are more prevalent. But it is a fact, documented by MedPAC and peer-reviewed studies, that HRRP’s current methodology penalizes providers serving lower-income patients, draining resources from the places that need them most. In the long-run, continuation of that methodology would generate higher rather than lower cost of care for those patients.

“This new legislation would enable CMS to place hospitals in groups for the purposes of determining penalties. Hospitals would compete against those with a similar proportion of dually eligible patients. NCHC has supported just such an approach for several years, and we are pleased to see it advancing in the House today.”

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