Medicare Announces Sites For Pilot Program To Improve Quality As Patients Move Across Care Settings

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the 14 communities around the nation that have been chosen for the Agency’s Care Transitions Project, seeking to eliminate unnecessary hospital readmissions. “Our data show that nearly one in five patients who leave the hospital today will be re-admitted within the next month, and that more than three-quarters of these re-admissions are potentially preventable,” said CMS Acting Administrator Charlene Frizzera.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on April 18th, 2009