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HRRP · Summary

Hospital Readmissions

Cuts pay by up to 3% when more patients than expected return to the hospital in the thirty days after leaving.

Full explorer on Thirty Day Readmissions (opens in a new tab)

Every condition, the peer groups, the history behind these numbers and a what-if.

This page shows CMS’s FY2027 values. The estimated dollars across all three programs, on the front page and each hospital’s page, use FY2026, the latest year all three programs share.

Readmissions · FY2027CMS final data

1Hospitals with a cut

2,334

of 2,912 in the file

2Share of hospitals cut

80.2%

Payment adjustment factor below one.

3Fiscal year

FY2027

The cut applies to payments for discharges in this fiscal year.