Number of U.S. hospitals Medicare punished for high readmissions FY2022, by years

As of FY2022, 2,920 hospitals have been penalized at least once by Medicare for hospital readmission rates exceeding 30-day risk-standardized readmission rates. Moreover, 1,288 have been punished for 10 years straight. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) was created as part of Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) payment and delivery system reform, to focus on quality rather than quantity of care. Preventable rehospitalization costs Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars each year and can be avoided through better care and more attention paid to the patients during discharge and transition. Thus Medicare reduces reimbursement to hospitals with high readmission rates. As of FY2022, only 219 hospitals have not been penalized at all in the 10 years since the inception of HRRP, while 2,499 hospitals were penalized in FY 2022 alone. This statistic presents the number of acute-care hospitals in the United States that Medicare punished for high readmission for select number of years as of FY2022.