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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
A study released by Kaiser Health News shows that Eastern Niagara Hospital-Lockport and Eastern Niagara Hospital-Newfane have patient readmission rates higher than the national average.

The report, based on Medicare analysis looking at readmission of patients with any kind of problem within 30 days of discharge, is the latest part of the government’s push to improve quality at the nation’s hospitals instead of simply paying Medicare patients’ bills.

The data shows that nationwide readmission rates for the first eight months of 2013 dropped below 18 percent, half a percentage point below 2012’s rate of 18.5 percent. From 2007 to 2011, hospitals had been readmitting 19 percent of patients. The state of New York overall was higher than the national average, but Eastern Niagara Hospitals were the only hospitals in Western New York higher than the average, the data showed.

Medicare charged the hospitals "readmission penalties." In the first year of the program, it fined 2,213 hospitals for higher than anticipated readmission rates - including ENH. The second round of penalties charged 2,225 hospitals - again, including ENH.

The "readmission penalty" for ENH was 0.64 percent in 2013 and 1.39 percent in 2014. Those penalties are applied to Medicare reimbursement rates for the hospitals, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The published data does not differentiate between ENH-Lockport and ENH-Newfane.



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