Nutritional intervention may help decrease 30-day readmission rates among Medicare patients
In the U.S., one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to a hospital each year at an estimated cost of $17.5 billion annually. To reduce this impact, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has introduced hospital penalties based on readmissions conditions that commonly affect patients aged 65 and older – including acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia…
October 22, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 17-5-billion, aca, affordable, based-on-readmissions, commonly-affect, congestive-heart, estimated-cost, hospital-each, hospital-penalties, impact, including-acute, myocardial-infarction
