Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program : An Economic and Operational Analysis
The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), a part of the US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to penalize hospitals with excess readmissions. We take an economic and operational (patient flow) perspective to analyze the effectiveness of this policy in encouraging hospitals to reduce readmissions. We develop a game-theoretic model that captures the competition among hospitals inherent in HRRP's benchmarking mechanism. We show that this competition can be counter-productive: it increases the number of non-incentivized hospitals, which prefer paying penalties over reducing readmissions in any equilibrium. We calibrate our model with a dataset of more than 3,000 hospitals in the United States and show that under the current policy, and for a large set of parameters, 4% to 13% of the hospitals remain non-incentivized to reduce readmissions. We also validate our model against the actual performance of hospitals in the three years since the introduction of the policy. We draw several policy recommendations to improve this policy's outcome. For example, localizing the benchmarking process -- comparing hospitals against similar peers -- improves the performance of the policy
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2017
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Authors: | Zhang, Dennis ; Gurvich, Itai ; Van Mieghem, Jan A. ; Park, Eric ; Young, Robert ; Williams, Mark |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (43 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | In: Management Science Vol. 62, No. 11, November 2016, pp. 3351–3371 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 30, 2015 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.2366493 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037906
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