Today's letter: CARE Act. Today's letter: CARE Act. Skip to ... News recently reported that an unprecedented number of hospitals will face fines in the upcoming year for their high readmission rates.

A bipartisan group of 34 House members sent a letter June 10 asking HHS and CMS to be careful that Medicare’s penalties for hospital readmissions don’t have an unfair impact on safety-net ...

The readmission reduction program, which was established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, took effect in fiscal year 2013. During the first year, CMS cut Medicare reimbursement ...

Joint NGO letter - GSP reform - readmission conditionality Both under the current GSP system and in the Commission’s proposal for a new one, the Everything But Arms (EBA) ...

A Register article said that a number of hospitals in the state -- including the "Masonic Home and Hospital," now Masonicare Health Center-- did not meet the readmission criteria set out in the ...