The New Old Age: Hospitals Stopped Readmitting So Many Medicare Patients. Did That Cost Lives?

A new government program was supposed to prevent certain Medicare recipients from cycling in and out of hospitals. Now experts worry some older patients are being denied necessary care.

Source: NYT Health - January 19, 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