Professor Terry Discusses Hospital Readmissions with IBJ
11/23/2021
Research over the years has cast doubt on the effectiveness of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, which recently released its annual report card of how hospitals in the U.S. is doing in keeping patients from being readmitted within a month of discharge.
That’s according to IU McKinney Professor of Law Nicolas Terry, whose interview for the article, “Hospitals face big fines for frequent readmissions,” in the November 19 issue of the Indianapolis Business Journal.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services uses the pressure of lower reimbursements to get hospitals to improve their numbers and cut down on the revolving door of readmissions, IBJ reported.
Measuring those improvements are complicated. “Readmissions are a puzzle—both as to identifying causes and fixing the problem,” he said.
Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law at IU McKinney, where he serves as executive director of the Hall Center for Law and Health and teaches health care and health policy courses.
His recent scholarship deals with health privacy, mobile health, Big Data, artificial intelligence, and the opioid overdose epidemic. Professor Terry blogs for Harvard Law School’s Bill of Health and hosts a podcast, The Week in Health Law.
