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Climbing Rates Of Hospital Discharges To Home Aren't New

Published on Fri Mar 26, 2021

The trend of patients being discharged from hospitals to home health rather than skilled nursing facilities began before COVID-19, the latest Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report shows. “The share of [fee-for-service] Medicare beneficiaries’ inpatient stays that resulted in a discharge to home with home health care was 18.4 percent in 2019, up from 18.1 percent in 2018 and 16.9 percent [...]
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