Maryland hospitals are exempted from penalties because that state has a separate payment arrangement with Medicare.īelow are look-up tools for each type of penalty. The patient safety penalties cost hospitals 1 percent of Medicare payments over the federal fiscal year, which runs from October through September. For the readmission penalties, Medicare cuts as much as 3 percent for each patient, although the average is generally much lower. Under programs set up by the Affordable Care Act, the federal government cuts payments to hospitals that have high rates of readmissions and those with the highest numbers of infections and patient injuries. Latest story: Medicare Cuts Payment to 774 Hospitals Over Patient Complications (Rau, 2/19/21)ĭownload the data: 2021 Hospital-Acquired Conditions Data (.csv) Past Years’ Penalties Latest story: Medicare Punishes 2,499 Hospitals for High Readmissions (Rau, 10/28/21)ĭownload the data: 2022 Readmission Data (.csv) Patient Safety Penalties
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