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Executive Summary
- Readmission rates for fiscal 2025 saw fewer hospitals getting large penalties compared with fiscal 2024. For at least the past four years, the number of hospitals given penalties of 1% or more by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program has dropped.
- Hospitals with the lowest percentage of people eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid coverage in peer group 1 once again received the highest percentage of penalties of more than 1% from CMS. Peer group 1 also had the highest percentage of hospitals with no penalties based on their performance in reducing excess readmissions.
- Almost all hospital types saw their median fiscal 2023 net rating increase after a drop in fiscal 2022 Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey ratings. Only small critical-access hospitals (hospitals with less than $10 in net patient revenue) saw their rating decline, but that group also had more than a 15% decrease in the number of surveys returned compared with fiscal 2022.
- About 4% fewer hospitals reported survey results in fiscal 2023, compared with 2019, for whether patients would recommend the hospital. The number of surveys returned dropped 20% from 2019, to about 2.3 million returned in 2023.
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