Many Medicare Patients Leave Hospital, Then Quickly Return

Readmissions cost US billions a year

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 2, 2009 7:30 AM CDT

(Newser) – One-third of all Medicare patients hospitalized each year are readmitted within 90 days of being discharged, costing taxpayers billions of dollars annually, a new study found. Meanwhile, half of patients who went back in the first month after treatment had not seen a doctor in... Read full story »

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