The latest additions to AHCJ’s core curriculum pages on Health Policy include information about bundled payments, acute and chronic conditions, SHOP exchanges and some resources on overtreatment and screening guidelines.
The Health Policy data page now includes links to the latest readmission rates released by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News has written for AHCJ members about how to use readmission data in your reporting, including why it has become so important:
The Affordable Care Act honed in on hospital readmissions because many health policy experts believe they’re symptomatic of the broad dysfunction of the health care system where providers don’t work with each other as patients pass from one setting, like a hospital, to another, like a primary doctor’s oversight or a nursing home.
New readmissions penalties that begin in October are intended to prod hospitals to start making sure patients get the care they need after they walk out the door.
