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Thats actually not true. The readmission penalties make it so hospitals are not paid at all for the readmission.

• chimeracoder 13y ago
  > The readmission penalties make it so hospitals are not paid at all for the readmission. That's the goal, but that's not how it actually works out in practice - look at the details of how the penalties are levied, and you'll see why. If they were implemented perfectly, that would be true. Or if all payers used a bundled payment system, that would be true. But neither of those are the case (at least not now). (An easy way to see this is to see that there is a cap for the maximum penalty - so if the total amount made on readmissions is larger than this cap, the hospital would still make money overall[0].) [0] Of course, nothing can be simple (that would be too easy!), so the actual way that these are calculated is even more convoluted - take a look if you're interested, but don't say I didn't warn you. :)