SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the readmission reduction benchmark under chapter 6D of the General Laws shall be a 20 per cent reduction of readmission rates, as measured by the health policy commission in consultation with the center for health information and analysis, between those rates observed in the year 2017 and those rates observed in the year 2020, provided further that any hospital that experiences 25 percent or more of its readmission from any skilled nursing facility licensed pursuant to 105 cmr 153 shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with such facility relative to protocols for reducing hospital readmission, which shall be submitted to the department of public health.
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