The Bay State had the fourth-worst rate of hospital readmissions in the nation last year, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
Medicare penalized 80 percent of the state's hospitals for unplanned readmissions, with the average penalty for the 55 hospitals amounting to .78 percent of their Medicare reimbursements, the report states.
Only New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware fared worse, the report shows, with 98 percent, 88 percent and 86 percent, respectively, of those states' hospitals being penalized.
"Hospitals in Massachusetts will likely use this to take a closer look at why patients are being readmitted," said Dr. Karen E. Joynt, a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. "People have raised a lot of possibilities — differences in how complex patients are; the socioeconomic status of patients; the likelihood of using hospital care when a lot of hospitals are around, like they are here; people who don't have access to primary care physicians."
From fiscal year 2013 to fiscal year 2015, the most penalized hospital in Massachusetts was Wing Memorial Hospital and Medical Center in Palmer, which was penalized 0.91 percent, 1.39 percent and 1.43 percent of its Medicare reimbursements, respectively, according to the report.
Of Massachusetts' 61 acute care hospitals, only Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, Adcare Hospital in Worcester, Baystate Mary Lane Hospital in Ware and Baystate Medical Center in Springfield were not penalized in any of the three years.
Nationally, roughly 2 million people who had been hospitalized in 2013 — nearly 18 percent of all Medicare patients — were readmitted within a month, costing Medicare $26 billion, an estimated $17 billion of which was due to preventable readmissions, according to federal data.
In 2012, the federal government began penalizing hospitals for having more Medicare readmissions than expected.
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