Federal efforts to curb readmissions using payment penalties appear to be paying off, with an 8% overall reduction in hospital readmissions since the program began in 2010, according to a recent announcement by Patrick Conway, MD, the chief medical officer of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
At least some of that success can be attributed to the increasing role pharmacists are playing in patient care, with some hospitals reporting even steeper reductions of 50% and