Differential Impact of Hospital and Community Factors on Medicare Readmission Penalties.
Monica S AswaniMeredith L KilgoreDavid J BeckerDavid T ReddenBisakha Pia SenJustin BlackburnPublished in: Health services research (2018)
As the readmission risk adjustment does not include any community-level characteristics or geographic controls, the resulting endogeneity bias has the potential to disparately penalize certain hospitals.
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