Table: Hospitals Judged Best And Worst For Hip And Knee Readmissions And Complications - Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News /health-industry/hip-and-knee-surgery-chart/ Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News produces in-depth journalism on health issues and is a core operating program of KFF. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:52:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=32 Table: Hospitals Judged Best And Worst For Hip And Knee Readmissions And Complications - Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News /health-industry/hip-and-knee-surgery-chart/ 32 32 161476233 Table: Hospitals Judged Best And Worst For Hip And Knee Readmissions And Complications /health-industry/hip-and-knee-surgery-chart/ /health-industry/hip-and-knee-surgery-chart/#comments Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:51:58 +0000 http://khn.wp.alley.ws/news/hip-and-knee-surgery-chart/ Medicare has started publishing how well patients fared after hip and knee replacement surgeries. It evaluated how often a hospital’s patients ended up being . It also looked at how often patients suffered a , such as a blood clot, infection, problem with the artificial joint or death.

While Medicare rated most hospitals as average, it identified 95 hospitals with rates that were higher than the national average in one of the two categories, and 97 hospitals with rates that were lower than average. Those outlier hospitals are listed in the sortable table below. A dash (—) indicates the hospital had average performance for that indicator.

You can look up any individual hospital on Medicare’s or see .  In judging hospitals, Medicare evaluated cases between July 2009 and June 2012.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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