Project BOOST and Cardiovascular Disease Readmissions in a Rural Acute Care Facility

Hospital readmissions are a source of reduced payment as mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The number of dollars used for hospital readmissions has sky rocketed above $17 million for heart failure alone. The changes in the ACA reimbu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armfield, Jennifer
Other Authors: Wung, Shu-Fen
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622926
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/622926