Background: Hospital readmissions are an important marker of healthcare quality, reflecting worse patient outcomes and resulting in millions of dollars of penalties annually. Medication nonadherence is an important driver of hospital readmissions, with one significant factor being difficulty obtaining medications after discharge. The difficulty could be due to copays, availability, or transportation to a local […]

Background: Care fragmentation is associated with a number of clinical and socio-demographic features which have been thought to increase hospital utilization as well as morbidity and mortality. Patients who receive fragmented care at the hospital level are often underinsured and uninsured. It is unclear to what degree lack of insurance and subsequently lack of continuous […]