150.965 Adjusting Parameters for Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
The Medical Society of the State of New York will urge the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to omit planned and unrelated readmissions from the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. MSSNY supports implantation of hospital peer-grouping by CMS based on their similar proportions of low-income patients, rather than evaluating their performance on national levels.
MSSNY further supports a pilot study conducted by New York State to formulate appropriate testing criteria to ensure that the hospital readmission reduction program accounts for all the social factors and accurately reflects health quality delivered to our heart failure patients. (HOD 2018-252)
