Health Care Costs and Utilization Predictions by the Skilled Nursing Facility Readmission Risk Instrument

Health care providers at hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are increasingly expected to optimize care of post-acute patients to reduce hospital readmissions and contain costs. To achieve these goals, providers need to understand their patients ’ risk of hospital readmission and how this risk is associated with health care costs. A previously developed risk prediction model identifies patients’ probability of 30-day hospital readmission at the time of discharge to an SNF. With a computerized algorithm, we translated this model as the S killed Nursing Facility Readmission Risk (SNFRR) instrument.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - January 11, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Anupam Chandra, Sue L. Visscher, Kandace A. Lackore, Rajeev Chaudhry, Paul Y. Takahashi, Gregory J. Hanson, Bijan J. Borah Tags: Original Study Source Type: research