Racial and Ethnic Composition of Hospitals' Service Areas and the Likelihood of Being Penalized for Excess Readmissions by the Medicare Program

Social Sciences

• hospital services 100%
• penalty 11%
• risk adjustment 10%
• hospital association 9%
• resident 9%
• minority 8%
• Academy of Sciences 7%
• market 7%
• methodology 6%
• research method 5%
• logistics 5%
• medicine 4%
• regression 4%
• engineering 3%
• human being 3%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Medicare 74%
• Patient Readmission 33%
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.) 27%
• American Hospital Association 11%
• Logistic Models 9%
• Risk Adjustment 9%
• National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.) Health and Medicine Division 9%
• Medicaid 8%
• Hispanic Americans 6%
• Data Analysis 5%