CMS will hold a public meeting Dec. 3 on the Community-Based Care Transitions Program, a five-year pilot program available to hospitals with high readmission rates, according to AHA News Now.
The meeting, to be held in Baltimore, requires registration by Nov. 19 to attend in person and by Dec. 2 to attend via webcast.
Under the $500 million pilot program, which starts in early 2011, hospitals must launch at least one evidence-based care transition intervention for Medicare beneficiaries at high risk for readmission. Participating hospitals may work with community-based organizations providing care transition services in the program, which was authorized by the healthcare reform law.
The new pilot grew out of a successful translation of the Care Transitions Intervention model into practice settings nationwide. Fourteen states have tested the model under a CMS contract, and many of them have experienced significant reductions in hospital readmissions.
A Care Transitions pilot project involving quality improvement organizations began last April at hospitals in 14 communities across the country and has been showing some success.
Under the healthcare reform law, hospitals with high readmission rates for patients with conditions, such as heart failure, will see their payments cut starting in Oct. 2012, and the list of the conditions will be expanded in 2014.
Read the AHA News Now report on the Community-Based Care Transitions Program.
Read more coverage of readmissions:
- Cigna Starts Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions for Members
- Hospitals in New CMS Pilot Starting to See Readmissions Fall
- More Than One-Third of California Inpatients Readmitted Within a Year
The meeting, to be held in Baltimore, requires registration by Nov. 19 to attend in person and by Dec. 2 to attend via webcast.
Under the $500 million pilot program, which starts in early 2011, hospitals must launch at least one evidence-based care transition intervention for Medicare beneficiaries at high risk for readmission. Participating hospitals may work with community-based organizations providing care transition services in the program, which was authorized by the healthcare reform law.
The new pilot grew out of a successful translation of the Care Transitions Intervention model into practice settings nationwide. Fourteen states have tested the model under a CMS contract, and many of them have experienced significant reductions in hospital readmissions.
A Care Transitions pilot project involving quality improvement organizations began last April at hospitals in 14 communities across the country and has been showing some success.
Under the healthcare reform law, hospitals with high readmission rates for patients with conditions, such as heart failure, will see their payments cut starting in Oct. 2012, and the list of the conditions will be expanded in 2014.
Read the AHA News Now report on the Community-Based Care Transitions Program.
Read more coverage of readmissions:
- Cigna Starts Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions for Members
- Hospitals in New CMS Pilot Starting to See Readmissions Fall
- More Than One-Third of California Inpatients Readmitted Within a Year