READMISSIONS: Benchmarks: Trends in 30-day readmission rate for US, states, counties, hospitals (Medicare data)

MEDICARE 30-DAY READMISSION RATES: U.S. national average
Year	All Medical	All Surgical	CHF	AMI	Pneumonia
2004	15.9%	12.7%	20.9%	19.4%	15.1%
2008	16.2%	12.7%	21.4%	18.7%	15.3%
2009	16.1%	12.7%	21.2%	18.5%	15.3%
2010	15.9%	12.4%	21.1%	18.1%	15.3%
2011	15.9%	12.3%	21.1%	17.8%	15.3%
2012	15.5%	12.0%	20.5%	16.8%	14.9%

Notes:

• CHF: Congestive heart failure
• AMI: Acute myocardial infarction
• The data are from a FREE interactive website that can be adjusted to provide data for other geographies – state, county, hospital referral regions – or for individual hospitals.
• I generated these data on 12/29/15 using the interactive website; and double-checked them by re-generating them.
• 2012 is the most current year for which data are available as of this writing (12/29/15)

Source: The Dartmouth atlas of health care. (2015). Lebanon, N.H.: The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Retrieved from http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/data/topic/topic.aspx?cat=30  Posted by AHA Resource Center (312) 422-2050 rc@aha.org