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Impact of Federal Policies on Hospital Efforts to Reduce Readmissions, by Receipt of Penalty in 2013a,b
aPenalties are those that were applied to payments in fiscal year 2013, when our survey was in the field. Minor penalties were defined as those that were less than the median; major penalties were those that were greater than the median.
bResults are adjusted for sample weights and nonresponse bias.
