CMS: 4 Facts About Declining Readmissions Rates for Medicare Beneficiaries

1. Between 2007 and 2011, the all-cause 30-day hospital readmission rate among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries held constant at around 19% 2. The Medicare all-cause 30-day readmission rate fell to 18.5% in 2012 3. Between Jan.1st and Aug. 31st, 2013, the Medicare all-cause readmission rate was less than 18% 4. Utah, the only state in which Medicare readmissions rates did not decline, already had one of the lowest readmissions rates in the country Source: The CMS Blog, December 6, 2013