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Medicare punishes 2,499 hospitals for high readmissions

Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News (TNS)
Posted 10/31/21

The federal government’s effort to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions is ending its first decade with Medicare cutting payments to nearly half the nation’s …

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