Impact of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status on risk-adjusted readmission rates: Implications for the hospital readmissions reduction program

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Patient Readmission 100%
• Social Class 82%
• Risk Adjustment 42%
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.) 41%
• Medicare 33%
• Safety-net Providers 16%
• Rural Hospitals 14%
• Knee Replacement Arthroplasties 11%
• Health Care Costs 9%
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 9%
• Hip 8%
• Pneumonia 8%
• Inpatients 8%
• Heart Failure 7%
• Myocardial Infarction 7%
• Databases 6%

Social Sciences

• social status 67%
• ethnicity 65%
• risk adjustment 34%
• penalty 24%
• hospital services 9%
• utilization 5%
• Healthcare 5%
• costs 4%