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READMISSION
REDUCTION
The 49 Hospitals Facing the Highest Readmission
Penalties From Medicare
By Heather Punke
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s part of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, Medi-
care will cut payments to 2,597 hospitals by anywhere from
0.01 percent to the maximum of 3 percent for fiscal year 2017.
CMS released the results from the fih year of the program Aug. 2.
Forty-nine hospitals face the maximum 3 percent cut in payment for
every Medicare patient stay from Oct. 1, 2016, through Sept. 30, 2017.
ose hospitals are listed below, grouped by state.
Note: Information was pulled from a spreadsheet from Kaiser Health
News.
Arkansas
1. Baptist Health Medical Center-Hot Springs County (Malvern)
2. Chambers Memorial Hospital (Danville)
3. Physicians' Specialty Hospital (Fayetteville)
Arizona
4. Arizona Orthopedic and Surgical Specialty Hospital (Chandler)
California
5. Oroville Hospital
Florida
6. Larkin Community Hospital Palm Springs Campus (Hialeah)
7. Palm Bay Hospital
8. St. Lucie Medical Center (Port Saint Lucie)
Illinois
9. Richland Memorial Hospital (Olney)
Indiana
10. Kentuckiana Medical Center (Clarksville)
Kentucky
11. Greenview Regional Hospital (Bowling Green)
12. Harlan ARH Hospital
13. Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center
14. Monroe County Medical Center (Tompkinsville)
15. Saint Joseph East (Lexington)
16. Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center (South Williamson)
17. Whitesburg ARH Hospital
Louisiana
18. Byrd Regional Hospital (Leesville)
19. Franklin Medical Center (Winnsboro)
20. Lafayette General Surgical Hospital
21. Lake Area Medical Center (Lake Charles)
North Carolina
22. Northern Hospital of Surry County (Mount Airy)
23. Wilkes Regional Medical Center (North Wilkesboro)
New Jersey
24. St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (Paterson)
New York
25. Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital
26. Queens Hospital Center (Jamaica)
27. St. Charles Hospital (Port Jefferson)
28. St. John's Episcopal Hospital at South Shore (Far Rockaway)
Ohio
29. Kings Daughters Medical Center Ohio (Portsmouth)
Oklahoma
30. St. John Broken Arrow
Pennsylvania
31. Edgewood Surgical Hospital (Transfer)
32. Physician's Care Surgical Hospital (Royersford)
33. WellSpan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital (York)
South Carolina
34. Beaufort County Memorial Hospital
Tennessee
35. Henry County Medical Center (Paris)
36. Livingston Regional Hospital
37. Perry Community Hospital (Linden)
Texas
38. Arise Austin Medical Center
39. Baylor Scott & White Surgical Hospital at Sherman
40. Memorial Hermann Surgical Hospital Kingwood
41. South Texas Surgical Hospital (Corpus Christi)
42. Starr County Memorial Hospital (Rio Grande City)
43. Sugar Land Surgical Hospital
44. Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southlake
Virginia
45. Chesapeake General Hospital
46. Fauquier Hospital (Warrenton)
47. Reston Hospital Center
48. UVA Culpeper Hospital
West Virginia
49. Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital (Weston) n
