Medicare has decided that hospitals should be held accountable for how often sepsis survivors come back. The direction of the finding, that sepsis survivors return to the hospital more often than comparable patients, has held up across multiple datasets. The confirmed fact is that Medicare has adopted a 30-day sepsis readmission measure that will factor into hospital payments starting with FY 2030. The people most affected today are survivors in the first month after discharge and the family members caring for them. Observational research has consistently found sepsis survivors return to the hospital more often than comparable patients.