Interventions Slashed Hospital Readmissions

Moreover, they can only reduce health care costs if the savings from the decreased readmissions outweighs the cost of the intervention program. Under the current system that reimburses hospitals 100% for every readmission, this cannot happen.

DR. KATZ is in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. He reported no financial conflicts of interest. These remarks were taken from his editorial accompanying the two reports (Arch. Intern. Med. 2011;171:1230).