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  "description": "In October 2012, CMS began reducing Medicare payments for Inpatient Prospective Payment System hospitals with excess readmissions. Excess readmissions are measured by a ratio, by dividing a hospital\u2019s number of \u201cpredicted\u201d 30-day readmissions for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia by the number that would be \u201cexpected,\u201d based on an average hospital with similar patients. A ratio greater than 1 indicates excess readmissions.", 
  "maintainer": {
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  }, 
  "metadata": {
    "category": "Hospital Compare", 
    "description": "In October 2012, CMS began reducing Medicare payments for Inpatient Prospective Payment System hospitals with excess readmissions. Excess readmissions are measured by a ratio, by dividing a hospital\u2019s number of \u201cpredicted\u201d 30-day readmissions for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia by the number that would be \u201cexpected,\u201d based on an average hospital with similar patients. A ratio greater than 1 indicates excess readmissions.", 
    "socrata": {
      "@id": "http://www.opendatacache.com/data.medicare.gov/api/views/9n3s-kdb3.json"
    }
  }, 
  "name": "Hospital Readmission Reduction", 
  "schema": "socrata/data.medicare.gov", 
  "status": "needs review", 
  "table": "hospital_readmission_reduction"
}