Drive on to Motivate Hospitals to Prevent Avoidable Readmissions

Aug 19, 2009 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

One approach is to bundle payments to hospitals, physicians, labs, and other providers Momentum is building around a new effort to drive down existing rates of hospital readmissions. Different reimbursement proposals to encourage hospitals and physicians to reduce current readmission rates will likely also change the reimbursement status quo for laboratory testing. For example, bundling Part A and Part B payments may be one approach. Experts increasingly believe one game changer in lowering...
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