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 "title": "Unplanned Hospital Visits - Hospital",
 "summary": "Hospital level measures of unplanned readmissions, hospital return days, and unplanned visits after outpatient procedures.",
 "description": "Unplanned Hospital Visits: provider data. This data set includes provider data for the hospital return days (or excess days in acute care [EDAC]) measures, the unplanned readmissions measures, and measures of unplanned hospital visits after outpatient procedures.",
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  "Unplanned Hospital Visits",
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  "Excess Days in Acute Care",
  "Outpatient Surgery",
  "Outpatient",
  "Pneumonia",
  "Acute Myocardial Infarction",
  "Heart Failure",
  "Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease",
  "Coronary Artery Bypass Graft",
  "Colonoscopy",
  "Total Hip and/or Total Knee Arthroplasty"
 ],
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 ],
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 "category": "Hospitals",
 "publisher": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)",
 "contact": null,
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 "posted": "2026-09-30",
 "modified": "2026-09-10",
 "period_start": null,
 "period_end": null,
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 "cadence": null,
 "next_update": null,
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 "license": "https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/",
 "detail_key": "632h-zaca|2026-09-10|https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/sites/default/files/resources/30edc1d0417a34b58affcc2495a02b0a_1790013959/Unplanned_Hospital_Visits-Hospital.csv",
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