{"id":11193,"date":"2018-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/medicare-patient-readmit-rates-higher-in-proprietary-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T16:02:54","slug":"medicare-patient-readmit-rates-higher-in-proprietary-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/medicare-patient-readmit-rates-higher-in-proprietary-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Patient Readmit Rates Higher in Proprietary Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>For six major diseases, readmission rates up in for-profit versus government, nonprofit hospitals<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Oct. 3, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Among Medicare patients with six major diseases, readmission rates are higher for those receiving care in proprietary hospitals compared with government or nonprofit hospitals, according to a study published online Sept. 18 in <i>PLOS ONE<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Manish Mittal, Ph.D., from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and colleagues examined readmission data of patients for six major diseases &#8212; acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and total hip and\/or knee arthroplasty &#8212; for 2012 to 2015 in the context of hospital ownership structure.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that readmission rates of patients were statistically significantly higher in proprietary (for-profit) hospitals versus government and nonprofit hospitals. Across all six major diseases, this finding was independent of geographic distribution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This study shows an important national trend to which policymakers, health care providers, researchers, and patients should pay attention, especially in light of a changing health care landscape marked by discussions on reimbursement rates and network consolidations, which are occurring across all types of hospitals,&#8221; a coauthor said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0204272\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For six major diseases, readmission rates up in for-profit versus government, nonprofit hospitals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-11193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}