Readmissions

Preventable readmissions are the lowest hanging fruit in healthcare cost reduction today.
Hospital readmissions have gained increased attention from the media, state and Federal governments, health plans and providers. As stakeholders try to identify cost savings within healthcare, 30-day readmissions continue to come into focus, due in large part to the widely accepted belief that as many as 75% may be preventable.

1 in 5: Nationally, one in five Medicare patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge.

$17.4 Billion: Each year, Medicare spends over $17 billion on 30-day readmissions.

75%: MedPac and others have found that as many as 75% of the more than 2 million readmissions each year could be prevented.

Two-thirds: Following discharge, nearly 66% of adverse events among Medicare patients are related to medications.

In the last 10 years, a number of studies and academic programs have been conducted across the country aimed at solving the readmission problem. Even as leaders have emerged with demonstrated outcomes, no one has yet developed a scalable and sustainable model.

Find out more about how Dovetail Health has delivered significant savings for its partners through reduced readmission rates.