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US hospitals: star ratings, owners and Medicare penalties for 5,419 hospitals

Medicare lists 5,419 US hospitals, 4,495 of them with emergency services, and 706 owners and systems run three or more of them. The average overall rating is 3.2 of 5 and 198 hospitals hold one star. In fiscal year 2026, 717 of them faced a 1% Medicare payment reduction under the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, and 2,345 had an excess readmission ratio above 1.0 on at least one condition tracked by the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.

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Hospitals

5,419

Average overall rating

3.2 of 5

One star hospitals

198

Five star hospitals

384

With emergency services

4,495

HAC payment reductions, fiscal year 2026

717 of 3,035 in the program

With excess readmissions

2,345

Owner pages

706

Data as of

July 22, 2026

States

Owners and managers with the most hospitals

Grouped on CMS's own owner ID. Each page lists the owner's facilities.

Hospitals with a payment reduction and the most excess readmissions

Ranked by HAC payment reduction, then conditions with excess readmissions, then lowest star rating.

Updated November 7, 2026. Read from CMS Provider Data Catalog and data.cms.gov, hospitals. Open data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (US government work). Ratings and program results are as CMS lists them on the date shown and CMS refreshes them on its own schedule. The CMS files are joined on the CMS Certification Number. CMS gives each owner organization an ID, and an owner page groups hospitals on that ID. Names of individual owners and managers are not shown. This page uses CMS data and is not endorsed or certified by CMS. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.