6 of 6 hospitals take a cut in FY2027: 100% of the 6 measured on at least one condition. The average cut, counting all 6 hospitals, is 0.29%, the 27th-largest among the 49 states and DC in the program. Estimated total: $317Kestimate.
Vermont · FY2027Compared with all hospitals nationally
Figure 1. 6 of the 6 hospitals here take a cut; the largest, 1.28%, is at Central Vermont Medical Center.
Hospital dots, by cut
No cut
Under 0.25%
0.25%–0.49%
0.50%–0.99%
1.00%–1.99%
2.00%–3.00%
Dots are sized by Medicare volume and shaded by cut. Select one to open it.
CMS FY2027 Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Supplemental Data File. Locations geocoded from street addresses (U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder), else ZIP or county centers.
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Hospital
City
Cut
Base payments (dot size)
Central Vermont Medical Center
Barre
1.28%
$16.4M
Rutland Regional Medical Center
Rutland
0.18%
$20.8M
Northwestern Medical Center Inc
Saint Albans
0.15%
$8.5M
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
Brattleboro
0.05%
$5.8M
Southwestern Vermont Medical Center
Bennington
0.05%
$11.0M
Univ. of Vermont - Fletcher Allen Health Care
Burlington
0.05%
$98.1M
Size of the cuts
Figure 2. All 6 hospitals here take a cut, 0.29% on average; across all hospitals 20% take none.
Bars: Vermont. Outline: all hospitals. Both as shares, so areas of any size compare. The bar at the left is hospitals with no cut.
CMS FY2027 Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Supplemental Data File.
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Cut from
to
Hospitals here
Share here
Share of all hospitals
No cut
—
0
0%
20%
0.0%
0.1%
3
50%
18%
0.1%
0.2%
2
33%
11%
0.2%
0.3%
0
0%
10%
0.3%
0.4%
0
0%
8%
0.4%
0.5%
0
0%
6%
0.5%
0.6%
0
0%
6%
0.6%
0.7%
0
0%
4%
0.7%
0.8%
0
0%
3%
0.8%
0.9%
0
0%
3%
0.9%
1.0%
0
0%
2%
1.0%
1.1%
0
0%
2%
1.1%
1.2%
0
0%
1%
1.2%
1.3%
1
17%
1%
1.3%
1.4%
0
0%
1%
1.4%
1.5%
0
0%
1%
1.5%
1.6%
0
0%
1%
1.6%
1.7%
0
0%
0%
1.7%
1.8%
0
0%
0%
1.8%
1.9%
0
0%
0%
1.9%
2.0%
0
0%
0%
2.0%
2.1%
0
0%
0%
2.1%
2.2%
0
0%
0%
2.2%
2.3%
0
0%
0%
2.3%
2.4%
0
0%
0%
2.4%
2.5%
0
0%
0%
2.5%
2.6%
0
0%
0%
2.6%
2.7%
0
0%
0%
2.7%
2.8%
0
0%
0%
2.8%
2.9%
0
0%
0%
2.9%
3.0%
0
0%
0%
Peer groups
Figure 3. Most of the 6 hospitals here are in group 4.
How many hospitals here fall in each dual-eligible peer group. Group 1 serves the fewest low-income patients, group 5 the most. Under each group: its average cut here.
CMS FY2027 Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Supplemental Data File.
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Peer group
Hospitals here
Average cut
Group 1
0
none
Group 2
0
none
Group 3
1
0.05%
Group 4
5
0.34%
Group 5
0
none
Which conditions drive the penalties here
Figure 4. Heart failure is the largest part of the estimated dollars here, 30%.
All hospitals
Penalized on this condition
Share of estimated dollars
Left: share of measured hospitals penalized on each condition (tick: all hospitals, about half). Right: share of the estimated dollars. Each condition flags about half of the hospitals measured on it by design, because CMS compares a hospital with the median of its peer group, so a bar near the tick is not a finding on its own. Dollars are modeled here: each cut hospital’s estimated dollars split by its conditions’ parts of the cut.
Estimate · CMS FY2027 Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Supplemental Data File; dollars are modeled here.
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Condition
Measured here
Penalized here
Share penalized
All hospitals’ share
Modeled dollars
Share of dollars
Heart attack
1
0
0%
50%
$0
0%
COPD
6
4
67%
50%
$84K
27%
Heart failure
6
2
33%
50%
$96K
30%
Pneumonia
6
3
50%
50%
$90K
28%
Bypass surgery
1
0
0%
49%
$0
0%
Hip/knee replacement
3
2
67%
50%
$47K
15%
Average cut over time
Figure 5. In FY2027, the average cut in Vermont was 0.29%, against 0.35% across all hospitals in the program.
Red: hospitals in Vermont that are in the FY2027 program. Dashed: every hospital in the FY2027 program, nationwide. Each year averages those in that year’s file. The cap on the cut changed over the years, so a cut in one year is not the same size of penalty in another. Shaded: the years whose data reach the claims of January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020, which CMS left out.
This site recomputes · CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program supplemental data files, FY2013–FY2027.