Number of U.S. hospitals Medicare punished for high readmissions in FY 2023
In FY2022, from the 3,046 hospitals Medicare assessed for hospital readmissions, 2,273 (or 42 percent) were penalized for readmission rates exceeding 30-day risk-standardized readmission rates. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) was created as part of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) payment and delivery system reform, to focus on quality rather than quantity of care. Preventable rehospitalization costs Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars each year and can be avoided through better care and more attention paid to the patients during discharge and transition. Thus Medicare is reducing its payments to these 2,273 hospitals with an average penalty of 0.43 percent reduction in payment for each Medicare patient for FY2023. Penalties are capped at three percent.
This statistic presents the number of hospitals in the United States that Medicare punished in FY 2023 for high readmission based on patients discharged in the past three years.