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More Than 1/3 Of Hospitalized Medicare Benes Discharged

Published on Fri Mar 22, 2013

With more than a third of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries discharged to home care, you can bet law- and policymakers will ratchet up expectations for home care providers to curb rehospitalizations.

More than 37 percent of hospitalized Medi-care beneficiaries are discharged to home health, said Jennie Harvell with the HHS Office of the Assistant [...]
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