Assuring a Continuum of Care for Heart Failure Patients Through Postacute Care Collaboration

Abstract

Virani et al., 2021). A key cost driver for HF management is 30-day hospital readmissions (Van Spall et al., 2018), with one in five HF patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge (Earl et al., 2020;Khera et al., 2020). Reducing the 30-day readmission rate, a high priority for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), was the impetus for establishing the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program within the 2010 Affordable Care Act (CMS, 2020). Clinical management of HF patients has also improved by introducing guideline-directed medical therapies