Thought I’d pass along a simple picture showing the results of Medicare efforts to reduce hospital readmissions. To their credit, the folks of Medicare are not sure what will work, so they have been pilot testing lots of programs. But as this picture from a January 2012 Congressional Budget Office briefing shows, there is wide variability in the effectiveness of these kinds of programs.
The bottom line here: if you don’t know what’s going to work, test of competing ideas. Find what works, and disseminate it. Then make sure to see if it is still working! Nothing easy here, but at least folks over at Medicare are trying to figure this out.
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