Readmissions performance and penalty experience of safety-net hospitals under Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Table 3 Average penalty under HRRP by safety-net status, 2013-2016

1) Safety-net hospitals: hospitals that fall in the top quartile of the Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) index; non-safety-net hospitals: hospitals in the bottom three quartiles of the DSH index
2) p-value for difference in average penalty under HRRP between safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals reported for each year, 2013-2016. The reported average penalty is on the proportion of total annual Medicare payments received by the hospital

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