MEDICARE READMISSIONS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' decision to publicly report hospital 30-day readmission rates for various diagnoses on the Hospital Compare web site shines a bright light on hospital performance. And health reform brought new financial penalties beginning in 2012 for hosptials with unacceptably high readmission rates, plus a new community transitions demonstration program to help the poorest performing hospitals. These changes signal a new chapter in the campaign to reduce preventable re-hospitalizations. The Administration is serious, and it views transparency and payment strategies as tools for both reducing health care costs and improving health care quality.
The National Medicare Readmissions Summit is the leading forum on Medicare 30-day readmissions policy and technology-enabled strategies for transitions of care. Because hospitals should really be looking at all-cause 30-day readmissions, not simply Medicare, the Summit will also highlight some successful projects aimed at reducing readmissions for dual eligibles, Medicaid, and commercially insured patients, not just Medicare.
At the Summit, participants will:
- Understand the impact of Medicare 30-day readmissions policies and requirements.
- Understand the larger context of CMS strategies to lower cost and shift care to less resource intensive settings.
- Learn about successful health plan and hospital strategies for managing readmissions and transitions of care, in Medicare and beyond.
- Learn about specific technology enabled innovations central to reducing readmissions, improving clinical quality, and reducing cost.
The Summit will bring together the leading national experts in payment policy, care delivery, operations, and technology and innovation from government, academia, the research community, health plans, hospitals, and consumer organizations. Highly successful models will be highlighted. Networking opportunities will abound. With so much at stake, this is a "must attend" event for health plans and hospitals alike.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Government agencies, consumer groups, patient quality organizations, health plans, hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and physician organizations, home health agencies, nurses and other clinicians, medical coding and billing staff, health care financial personnel, compliance staff, legal counsel and many others.
