As part of its hospital readmissions reduction program, Medicare will cut payments to 82 percent of the 3,046 hospitals evaluated for the program by between 0.01 percent to the maximum of 3 percent in fiscal year 2022.
Thirty-nine hospitals face the maximum 3 percent payment cut for every Medicare patient stay during fiscal year 2022, which runs Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022, according to an analysis by Kaiser Health News.
Here are the 39 hospitals facing the maximum penalty in fiscal year 2022, according to Kaiser Health News.
Arkansas
NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital (Jonesboro)
Arizona
Abrazo Scottsdale Campus (Phoenix)
Arizona Orthopedic and Surgical Specialty Hospital (Chandler)
California
Mercy Hospital of Folsom
Oroville Hospital
Florida
Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside (Jacksonville)
St. Lucie Medical Center (Port St. Lucie)
Georgia
Coliseum Medical Centers (Macon)
Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside
Illinois
Palos Community Hospital (Palos Heights)
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center (Mattoon)
Kentucky
Greenview Regional Hospital (Bowling Green)
Harlan ARH Hospital
Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center
St. Joseph East (Lexington)
Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center (South Williamson)
Whitesburg ARH Hospital
Massachusetts
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital (Milton)
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital (Plymouth)
St. Anne's Hospital (Fall River)
Michigan
Lakeland Hospital Watervliet
North Ottawa Community Health System (Grand Haven)
Missouri
St. Mary's Medical Center (Blue Springs)
North Carolina
Cape Fear Valley Hoke Hospital (Raeford)
New Mexico
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital
UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center (Rio Rancho)
Oklahoma
Bailey Medical Center (Owasso)
Pennsylvania
Nason Medical Center (Roaring Spring)
Surgical Institute of Reading (Wyomissing)
Texas
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Uptown (Dallas)
Baylor Scott & White Surgical Hospital-Fort Worth
Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center (Longview)
Lubbock Heart Hospital
Memorial Hermann Surgical Hospital Kingwood
Methodist McKinney Hospital
Sugar Land Surgical Hospital
Utah
Lone Peak Hospital (Draper)
Virginia
Fauquier Hospital (Warrenton)
West Virginia
Princeton Community Hospital