Wadley Regional Medical CenterTexarkana, TX

Readmissions and return visits

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Medicare patients

On the 2 readmission and return-visit measures CMS could compare, Wadley Regional Medical Center was no different from the national rate or its expected level.

Return trips after a stay or procedure

Medicare's readmission program

Excess readmission ratio: this hospital's predicted readmissions divided by the number expected for a typical hospital with the same patients. Above 1.00 means more readmissions than expected. 3 of 4 conditions are above 1.00.

Readmission rates count Medicare patients who were admitted to any acute-care hospital within 30 days of leaving this one, adjusted for how sick they were. "Better" or "worse" means CMS found the difference from the national rate statistically significant; most hospitals are "no different". Return-day and outpatient-surgery measures compare the hospital with what CMS expected for its own patients. The Readmissions Reduction Program ratios are shown as CMS publishes them; whether a hospital's payments are reduced depends on how its ratios compare with similar hospitals, so a ratio above 1.00 alone doesn't mean a penalty. About the data.

Timely and effective care

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · all patients unless noted · Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

CMS publishes these process-of-care measures without a better/worse verdict, so the U.S. figure is shown for context; small differences, or results based on few patients, may not mean much. About the data.

Medicare spending and payment programs

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

The Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program cuts Medicare payments by 1% for the quarter of hospitals with the worst scores. The Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program withholds a small share of every hospital's Medicare payments and pays it back according to the total performance score. A spending ratio of 1.00 equals the national median; spending reflects prices, the services patients received and care after discharge, not quality. Some hospitals, such as critical access, children's and cancer hospitals, are not part of these programs. About the data.

What Medicare paid at Wadley Regional Medical Center

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · original Medicare patients · 2024

Average hospital charges and actual payments for the procedures Medicare patients most often had here, compared with the average for Texas.

Hospital stays

Outpatient services

Charges are the hospital's list prices; payments are what Medicare, the patient and any other insurer actually paid (for outpatient services, Medicare's allowed amount). Private insurance prices differ. "vs state" compares this hospital's average payment with the state average for the same stay. All procedure costs.

Size and finances

Medicare cost report · fiscal year ending Dec 2023

As reported by the hospital to CMS; not audited. Operating margin is income from patient care divided by net patient revenue and leaves out investment income and donations. Compare Texas hospital finances.

The area around Wadley Regional Medical Center

HRSA shortage designations and BLS pay data

Primary care: Parts of Bowie are federally designated health professional shortage areas (1 designation). Highest shortage score 18.

Mental health: Parts of Bowie are federally designated health professional shortage areas (1 designation). Highest shortage score 18.

Dental: Parts of Bowie are federally designated health professional shortage areas (1 designation). Highest shortage score 18.

Nurse pay: registered nurses in Texas earn a median $95,970 a year. Healthcare salaries in Texas.

Shortage areas are designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration where there are too few primary care, mental health or dental providers for the population; scores run from 0 to 25 for primary and mental health care and 0 to 26 for dental care, higher meaning greater need. Texas shortage areas