http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/at-a-glance-medicare-fraud-in-hospitals/404860/

Pay for performance “pressures hospitals to cheat,” authors say

CEO Rani Khetarpal: Clinical interventions needed throughout 30-day post-discharge period
http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/cowboy-doctors-and-health-costs

WHO’S DRIVING UP U.S. healthcare costs? A recent study by Harvard professors and colleagues revealed that the culprits may be “cowboy doctors”—physicians who provide intensive, unnecessary, and often ineffective patient care, resulting in wasteful spending costing as much as 2 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product—hundreds of billions of dollars annually

Transitional care, a new Medicare billing category as of 2013, is about to see a new form of action thanks to California-based Global Transitional Care, the country’s first Medicare-approved, third-party transitional care provider dedicated exclusively to this service.
http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=QUA&content_id=319548