Penalties For Hospital-Acquired Conditions Vary Dramatically By State

This chart shows how many hospitals in each state will lose 1 percent of Medicare funding for the fiscal year that ends in 2018 because their patients had too many infections and potentially avoidable injuries. Medicare evaluated 3,306 hospitals and penalized 751. Specialty hospitals such as those serving children or veterans and "critical access hospitals" that are the only provider in their area were exempted, as were all hospitals in Maryland.