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New data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finds that almost all states improved on preventable hospital readmissions between 2010 and 2015, while readmissions declined 8 percent nationwide in the same period.
Preventable readmissions dropped in 49 states and the District of Columbia, according to a CMS blog post. Vermont's rate remained the same.
The drops aren’t small, either; according to the data, the decline exceeded 5 percent in 43 states and 10 percent in 11. Across all states, hospitals averted about 100,000 readmissions in 2015 and a projected 565,000 since 2010.
Hawaii (13.4 percent) and New Jersey (13.3) had the biggest drop in readmissions.