The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) does more than try to expand healthcare coverage to all Americans, it also has new programs and regulations intended to cut healthcare costs for both the government and its citizens.
One of these programs, a penalty for hospitals that readmit patients with the same conditions multiple times over the course of a 30 day period, recently swung into effect. Essentially, if patients are readmitted to a hospital unnecessarily within 30....