The Effect of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program on the Duration of Observation Stays: Using Regression Discontinuity to Estimate Causal Effects.
Jordan A AlbrittonThomas BelnapLucy SavitzPublished in: EGEMS (Washington, DC) (2017)
The findings reveal evidence that the HRRP has resulted in an increase in the duration of observation stays for some non-penalized hospitals.