Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5046558 | Social Science & Medicine | 2017 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Our results show that the costs of different-hospital readmissions are significantly higher relative to the costs of same-hospital readmission (approx. â¬777). Furthermore, the cost difference is found to be almost twice the size for patients readmitted to a teaching hospital (approx. â¬1016) (P < 0.10) compared to patients readmitted to a different general hospital (approx. â¬511) (P < 0.10). The results suggest that hospitals in general face a potential risk by treating different-hospital readmissions, and that the financial consequences are highest among teaching hospitals. If teaching hospitals are not compensated for the additional costs of treating different-hospital readmission patients, they might be unfairly funded under a DRG-based payment scheme.
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Authors
Christian Møller Dahl, Line Planck Kongstad,