Risk-standardised rate of unplanned, potentially preventable readmissions for patients who receive services in one of the following post-acute care provider types: skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and long-term care hospitals.

The risk-adjusted estimate of the number of potentially preventable readmissions that occurred within 30 days from discharge.

The risk-adjusted expected number of potentially preventable readmissions.

Patients/residents who died during the SNF/IRF/LTCH stay; Patients/residents less than 18 years old; Patients/residents who were transferred at the end of a stay to another SNF/IRF/LTCH or short-term acute care hospital; Patients/residents who did not have a short-term acute-care stay within 30 days prior to a SNF/IRF/LTCH admission date; Patients/residents discharged against medical advice; Patients/residents for whom the prior short-term acute-care stay was for nonsurgical treatment of cancer; SNF/IRF/LTCH stays with data that are problematic (e.g., anomalous records for hospital stays that overlap wholly or in part, or are otherwise erroneous or contradictory).

Demographic and eligibility characteristics; principal diagnoses; types of surgery or procedures from the prior short-term acute care stay; comorbidities; length of stay and intensive care utilisation from the prior short-term acute care stay; dialysis in the prior acute stay; and number of prior hospitalisations in the year preceding the PAC admission.

Medicare claims data submitted for Medicare Fee-For-Service patients.

Long-Term Care Hospital Quality Reporting Program (CMS and Providers) CMS Care Compare - Long-term care hospitals and Provider Data Catalogue (Publicly reported) www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/long-term-care-hospital/ltch-quality-public-reporting.

www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/long-term-care-hospital/ltch-quality-reporting-measures-information

cmit.cms.gov/cmit/#/MeasureView?variantId=2044&sectionNumber=1 Technical specifications: www.cms.gov/files/document/ltch-qm-calculations-and-reporting-users-manual-v50.pdf www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/LTCH-Quality-Reporting/Downloads/Measure-Specifications-for-FY17-LTCH-QRP-Final-Rule.pdf