Health Care Law Aims to Limit Need to Rehospitalize Patients
Clip: 6/28/2013 | 9m 27s
Health Care Law Aims to Reduce Need to Rehospitalize Medicare Patients
Every year, nearly 2 million Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged, at a cost of $17.5 billion. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on provisions in the new health care law that aim to limit the need to rehospitalize Medicare patients.
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Health Care Law Aims to Limit Need to Rehospitalize Patients
Clip: 6/28/2013 | 9m 27s
Every year, nearly 2 million Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged, at a cost of $17.5 billion. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on provisions in the new health care law that aim to limit the need to rehospitalize Medicare patients.
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