The purpose of this project is to assess the initial impacts of the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) and Readmission Reduction Programs on rural Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospitals.

Publications

• Which Rural and Urban Hospitals Have Received Readmission Penalties Over Time?
  Policy Brief
  University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
  Date: 10/2015
  The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program reduces Medicare payments for hospitals with excess rates of patient readmissions for certain conditions. It assesses rural/urban differences in the proportion of hospitals penalized under the program over time and whether condition-specific hospital readmission rates differ for rural/urban hospitals.