From the AHAP Blog: Wall Street Journal: The road to fewer readmissions

One in every ten dollars spent on healthcare goes toward preventable readmissions, according to a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). But what is being done to prevent hospital re-admissions in a day and age when hospital stays are shorter and re-admissions add an estimated $30 billion a year to the cost of healthcare? The Wall Street Journal recently reported on just what is being done to improve these numbers.

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