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Jeff Lemieux and Jon Bumbaugh Discuss Hospital Readmission Rates

Jeff Lemieux, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Policy and Research, AHIP, and Jon Bumbaugh, Director of Statistics & Actuarial Services, MedAssurant, Inc, address preventing hospital readmissions.

Jeff Lemieux, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Policy and Research, AHIP, and Jon Bumbaugh, Director of Statistics & Actuarial Services, MedAssurant, Inc, address preventing hospital readmissions.

Lemieux states that the study was set to examine the readmission rates in managed care compared with the rates in other studies in fee-for-service.

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