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Readmissions: What Health Plans Need to Know

Preventing avoidable hospital readmissions is considered by many to be the most important opportunity for reducing waste in health care.  The Johns Hopkins ACG® System can be used to identify at-risk patients.

Listen to Amy Salls, Director of Population Health Strategy at DST Health Solutions, discuss what a readmission is and why identifying these at-risk patients is important to your health plan.

This infographic from DST Health Solutions provides an example of a patient at high risk for readmission.