The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) has issued Hospital-Wide Adult All-Payer Readmissions in Massachusetts: SFY 2011-2016 updating previous CHIA reporting on the subject.
Key Findings:
- The unplanned, all-payer readmission rate for Massachusetts acute care hospitals was 15.9% in SFY 2016, the same rate as in the previous year.
- The risk-standardized readmission rates for hospitals had more variability in 2016 compared to 2015, ranging from a low of 13.6% to a high of 18.1%.
- Medicare and Medicaid insured patients have the highest readmission rates (18.0% and 17.1%, respectively) across payer types. These public payer groups collectively account for 83% of all readmissions in the Commonwealth.
- Academic medical centers and teaching hospitals dominate the list of hospitals with consistently high risk-standardized readmission rates over the past five years.
- Readmission rates among patients discharged to post-acute care settings are substantially higher than among patients discharged to home without services.
This report is also accompanied by a databook and a technical appendix.
Source: CHIA