" Medicare Readmission Penalties By State, Year 4",,,,,,,, "Medicare evaluated the readmission rates of the nation’s hospitals in determining the fourth year of penalties in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Medicare will apply the penalties to all its payments for patient stays between Oct. 1, 2015, and Sept. 30, 2016. In this chart, the first column after the state name shows the total number of hospitals penalized in each state. That is followed by the percent of each state’s hospitals that were penalized. That calculation includes hospitals exempted from the fines, such as those serving veterans and children. The final column shows the average penalty for penalized hospitals. * The penalties do not apply to Maryland hospitals, as that state has a unique reimbursement arrangement with Medicare, and thus Maryland is not included in this table.",,,,,,,, Source: Kaiser Health News analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,,,,,,,, "Republication Note: The readmission data in this story and charts is assembled, interpreted and analyzed by KHN using five files from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. KHN’s data is free to republish and should be credited to Kaiser Health News or Kaiser Health News and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. ",,,,,,,, KHN’s republishing rules can be found here.,,,,,,,, State Name,Number of Penalized Hospitals,Percent of All Hospitals Penalized, Average Hospital Penalty (Percent) ,,,,, Alabama,72, 79 , 0.61 ,,,,, Alaska,7, 33 , 0.44 ,,,,, Arizona,49, 62 , 0.48 ,,,,, Arkansas,41, 53 , 0.83 ,,,,, California,224, 65 , 0.40 ,,,,, Colorado,25, 32 , 0.29 ,,,,, Connecticut,28, 90 , 0.66 ,,,,, Delaware,5, 71 , 0.35 ,,,,, District of Columbia,7, 78 , 0.77 ,,,,, Florida,154, 81 , 0.67 ,,,,, Georgia,89, 67 , 0.47 ,,,,, Hawaii,10, 56 , 0.33 ,,,,, Idaho,4, 10 , 0.58 ,,,,, Illinois,113, 62 , 0.72 ,,,,, Indiana,64, 51 , 0.59 ,,,,, Iowa,25, 21 , 0.62 ,,,,, Kansas,32, 24 , 0.44 ,,,,, Kentucky,62, 65 , 1.19 ,,,,, Louisiana,66, 55 , 0.68 ,,,,, Maine,11, 31 , 0.40 ,,,,, Massachusetts,51, 78 , 0.70 ,,,,, Michigan,69, 50 , 0.64 ,,,,, Minnesota,39, 30 , 0.37 ,,,,, Mississippi,54, 55 , 0.61 ,,,,, Missouri,67, 61 , 0.71 ,,,,, Montana,5, 9 , 0.70 ,,,,, Nebraska,14, 15 , 0.39 ,,,,, Nevada,20, 56 , 0.57 ,,,,, New Hampshire,11, 42 , 0.45 ,,,,, New Jersey,63, 97 , 0.73 ,,,,, New Mexico,18, 43 , 0.37 ,,,,, New York,140, 77 , 0.75 ,,,,, North Carolina,76, 68 , 0.56 ,,,,, North Dakota,3, 7 , 0.14 ,,,,, Ohio,109, 64 , 0.71 ,,,,, Oklahoma,63, 50 , 0.55 ,,,,, Oregon,21, 34 , 0.32 ,,,,, Pennsylvania,128, 74 , 0.61 ,,,,, Rhode Island,9, 75 , 0.63 ,,,,, South Carolina,47, 75 , 0.57 ,,,,, South Dakota,8, 15 , 0.66 ,,,,, Tennessee,78, 70 , 0.64 ,,,,, Texas,203, 54 , 0.53 ,,,,, Utah,16, 35 , 0.53 ,,,,, Vermont,4, 27 , 0.08 ,,,,, Virginia,68, 80 , 1.01 ,,,,, Washington,36, 39 , 0.37 ,,,,, West Virginia,27, 52 , 0.99 ,,,,, Wisconsin,49, 39 , 0.38 ,,,,, Wyoming,8, 29 , 0.37 ,,,,, National," 2,592 ", 54 , 0.61 ,,,,,