Highlands Medical Center

2Location

Scottsboro, AL

3Type

Not a teaching hospital · 170 beds · Government · Rural

4Payment adjustment factor, FY2027

0.9970

CMS’s value. A factor below one is a cut.

5Reduction

0.30%

cut One minus the factor, as a percent.

Readmissions, estimated FY2026 Estimate

−$789

cut

The net across all three programs adds each program’s estimated dollars for FY2026, the latest year they share. Readmissions’ part can differ from the FY2027 values on this page.

This hospital across the programs

What CMS measured, FY2027

The conditions CMS measured for this hospital in FY2027, with the excess readmission ratio as CMS published it and the median of the hospital’s peer group.
Condition	Eligible discharges	Excess readmission ratio	Peer group median	Counted by CMS
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI)	4	1.0011 above 1	0.9968	No
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)	88	1.0554 above 1	0.9944	Yes
Heart failure (HF)	84	1.0208 above 1	0.9940	Yes
Pneumonia (PN)	153	1.0002 above 1	0.9909	Yes
Elective total hip or knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA)	16	1.0682 above 1	0.9988	No

A ratio above 1 means more readmissions than expected for the hospital’s patients. CMS counts a condition only when it has enough eligible discharges and its ratio is above the median of the hospital’s peer group, so a counted ratio can sit at or below 1. A counted condition adds to the hospital’s reduction, which can round to none.

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

Source: CMS’s FY2027 Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program files, as pinned by Thirty Day Readmissions. CMS’s values appear as CMS published them; dollars are this site’s estimates.

A cut is a program’s formula at work, not a verdict on a hospital’s care. Nothing on this page ranks hospitals.