Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Wisconsin with the largest Medicare value-based purchasing bonuses
54 Wisconsin hospitals ranked by value-based purchasing adjustment in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Value-based purchasing adjustmenthigher is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Serious complicationslower is better | Time in emergency departmentlower is better | Medicare spending per patientlower is better | Total beds | Compare |
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| National average | +0.13% | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| 51 | St Vincent Hospital | −0.13%, 42nd percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 15.2%, 3rd percentile | 14.0%, 93rd percentile | 1.24, 8th percentile | 133 min, 62nd percentile | 0.99, 50th percentile | 523 | Compare St Vincent Hospital |
| 52 | Froedtert South Inc. | −0.24%, 36th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 13.2%, 11th percentile | 14.9%, 4th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | 1.18, 12th percentile | 157 min, 44th percentile | 0.98, 55th percentile | 380 | Compare Froedtert South Inc. |
| 53 | St Marys Hospital Medical Center | −0.48%, 24th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 12.0%, 30th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | 1.36, 5th percentile | 102 min, 89th percentile | 1.04, 23rd percentile | 158 | Compare St Marys Hospital Medical Center |
| 54 | Marshfield Medical Center | −0.52%, 21st percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.5%, 26th percentile | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 16.9%, 1st percentile | 1.79, 1st percentile | 166 min, 38th percentile | 0.99, 50th percentile | 504 | Compare Marshfield Medical Center |
About these rankings
Rankings use the 2026 release of CMS Care Compare data. Hospitals share a rank (“T”) when their values are equal, and only hospitals with a reported value for the sorted measure are ranked. Shading compares each value with every hospital in the country, so it doesn’t change with your filters. Small differences are often not statistically meaningful; use the methodology and glossary for context.
- Value-based purchasing adjustment
- Change to Medicare payments under Hospital Value-Based Purchasing: a bonus (positive) or penalty (negative, up to 2%) based on the Total Performance Score..
- Overall star rating
- CMS overall hospital quality star rating (1-5).
- Patient survey star rating
- HCAHPS summary star rating (1-5).
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Hospital-wide readmission rate
- Rate of unplanned readmission within 30 days, all conditions. From 2025 CMS reports the Hybrid Hospital-Wide Readmission measure (claims plus EHR data), which replaced the claims-only measure; values are close but not strictly comparable across the change. CMS suppressed it for 2026.. Latest available: 2025 release.
- Serious complications
- Patient safety and adverse events composite (PSI 90; 1.0 = national value).
- Time in emergency department
- Median time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving.
- Medicare spending per patient
- Medicare spending per beneficiary episode relative to the national median (1.0 = national median).
- Total beds
- Total beds reported to CMS (Provider of Services file).