Assessment of Completeness of Hospital Readmission Rates Reported in Medicare Advantage Contracts' Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set

Daeho Kim; Rajesh Makineni; Orestis A Panagiotou; Amal N Trivedi

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3555

Assessment of Completeness of Hospital Readmission Rates Reported in Medicare Advantage Contracts' Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Apr 1;3(4):e203555. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3555.

Authors

Daeho Kim¹, Rajesh Makineni¹, Orestis A Panagiotou¹, Amal N Trivedi^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
² Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study evaluates the agreement between readmission rates reported by Medicare Advantage contracts and readmission rates calculated from their encounter data in the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS).

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Validation Study

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Contracts / statistics & numerical data
Cross-Sectional Studies
Datasets as Topic / standards*
Female
Humans
Male
Medicare Part C / statistics & numerical data*
Patient Readmission / statistics & numerical data*
United States

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding