Readmissions Test Page

Hospital readmissions are one of the key measures used for evaluating the quality of inpatient care and post-discharge outpatient care. Although in most cases readmissions are necessary, a significant portion may be preventable. Hospitals have implemented strategies at both the national and State levels to reduce preventable readmissions, particularly through improved discharge planning and care coordination. Hospitals and health systems are incentivized to implement these strategies by linking payment with certain key readmission measures.

This visualization presents readmission data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project from 2017 to 2022. It provides data on overall readmissions with initial visits, overall and ranked costs for readmissions, overall and ranked conditions associated with readmissions, and rates of readmissions and offers the ability to drill down to subpopulations including age groups and expected payers.