| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The second round of penalties started Oct. 1, 2013, and CMS cut reimbursement for 2,225 hospitals in 49 states by up to 2 percent.According to the reduction program, a readmission occurs when a Medicare patient is readmitted to the same or another acute-care hospital within 30 days of discharge, with certain exceptions such as transfers to another hospital and planned readmissions for chemotherapy
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