The New Old Age: Hospitals Stopped Readmitting Medicare Patients So Often. Was That a Good Thing?

A new government program was supposed to prevent certain Medicare recipients from cycling in and out of hospitals. Now some experts worry it may be costing lives.

Source: NYT Health - January 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: PAULA SPAN Tags: Hospitals Elderly Medicare Fines (Penalties) Heart Pneumonia Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard University Health Affairs (Journal) Journal of the American Medical Assn Medi Source Type: news