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New Study: Medicare’s Readmission Penalties May Be Killing Patients

By KIP SULLIVAN JD  On the morning of December 21, I opened my copy of the New York Times to find an op-ed that said almost exactly what I had said in a two-part article The Health Care Blog posted two weeks earlier. The op-ed criticized the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), one of dozens of… Read More: New Study: Medicare’s Readmission Penalties May Be Killing Patients »