Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus

2Location

Dover, DE

3Type

Major teaching · 304 beds · Nonprofit · Urban

4Payment adjustment factor, FY2027

0.9855

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

5Reduction

1.45%

cut One minus the factor, as a percent.

Readmissions, estimated FY2026 Estimate

−$465K

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)	298	1.1282 above 1	0.9968	Yes
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)	336	0.9786 at or below 1	0.9944	No
Heart failure (HF)	709	1.0115 above 1	0.9940	Yes
Pneumonia (PN)	1,143	1.1019 above 1	0.9909	Yes
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG)	59	1.1207 above 1	0.9961	Yes
Elective total hip or knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA)	10	1.0118 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.