Dean Merge To SSM and Hospital Readmissions

Dean of Wisconsin has announced plans to merge with SSM of St. Louis.  SSM is a huge vessel of unity that forms one of the largest networks of medical providers in the United States.

Federal health policy has tied reimbursement to measures of quality and efficiency.  Larger systems collaborating in a more integrated delivery of care practice excel in performance measures.

Hospital readmissions involves the discharge from a hospital and a re-hospitalization within 30 days of the last discharge.   Public health care payers (Medicare) will progressively reduce the level of reimbursement for a hospital readmission over the next few years.   This is federal policy shaping regulations to utilize payment to change health care delivery models.  Hospital readmissions within a 30 day time frame are no longer an acceptable outcome for hospital providers.

Rural community hospitals are more likely to serve a larger number of patients using Medicare as a pay source.  A greater percentage of the total number of patients being served will have public (Medicare) money as a pay source.   With (CMS) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid progressively reducing the amount reimbursed for re-admissions within 30 days the annual budget decreases.  The risk to a rural community hospital is a loss of a location. 

To manage this risk health care providers will seek to attach their practice to ever larger systems of health care delivery.  This moves troublesome risk in to a larger system of health that spreads it to a minimal fiscal adjustment.  Service areas producing larger margins of profit can contribute to support service areas producing lower margins of profit. 

The population continues to receive the convenient services a rural community hospital location can provide.  With these larger systems delivering procedures the consumer will begin to expect a known process for the received health product regardless of the geographical residence.  Change is occurring and Home Care Path encourages families to watch this transformation as it unfolds.

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