Illinois will be collecting $16.3 million in penalties from 82 hospitals that had too many Medicaid patients readmitted to their hospital, the state said Friday. Having people return to the hospital for preventable readmissions can be a sign of deficiencies in the process of care and treatment or the lack of post discharge follow-up. For that reason, the state developed a policy for reducing these readmissions in 2013. The federal government also penalizes hospitals for Medicare patients that have preventable readmissions. Those in the Chicago-area that had some of the highest violations were Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Memorial ($1.43 million owed), Rush University Medical Center ($854,597) and Norwegian American Hospital ($661,888).
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