1. Based on 220 hospitals in 2011, the average avoidable readmission rate in the United States was 12.6 percent.
2. Potentially avoidable readmissions equated to $9.5 million in annual at-risk profit for an average 300-based hospital in 2011.
3. The most common conditions for avoidable readmissions are:
• congestive heart failure (30 percent)
• bacterial pneumonia (24 percent)
• COPD or asthma in older adults (13 percent)
• urinary tract infection (10 percent) and
• diabetes with short-term complications (9 percent).
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