Hospital readmission rates in the United States are among the highest in the world. In 2011, there were 3.3 million 30-day re-admissions to the hospital, which contributed more than $41 billion in hospital costs.
Medicare patients accounted for $26 billion of these costs, and $17 billion of these Medicare readmission costs were deemed avoidable by the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA).
