Massachusetts ranks fourth-worst for hospital readmissions

The Bay State had the fourth-worst rate of hospital readmissions in the nation last year, according to a Kaiser Health News report. Medicare penalized 80 percent of the state’s hospitals for unplanned readmissions, with the average penalty for the 55 hospitals amounting to .78 percent of their Medicare reimbursements, the report states. Karen Joynt, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.

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