Baptist Health - Fort Smith
Baptist Health - Fort Smith in Fort Smith, AR. CMS-certified hospital reporting Medicare claims under the Hospital Price Transparency Rule.
1001 TOWSON AVENUE, Fort Smith, AR 72901
Quality Measures
Price Transparency Data
Under the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (effective Jan 2021), all hospitals must publish machine-readable files with their standard charges including cash/self-pay rates. PlainProcedure is expanding its MRF dataset, check back for published prices from this hospital.
Learn about hospital price transparency →Understanding Baptist Health - Fort Smith's Pricing & Quality Profile
Baptist Health - Fort Smith is a voluntary non-profit - private-owned acute care hospitals in Fort Smith, AR, reporting to CMS under the Hospital Compare and Care Compare programs. This hospital carries a 2-out-of-5 CMS Star Rating, a single blended score rolling up mortality, patient safety, readmissions, patient experience, and care timeliness relative to peer facilities nationwide. Emergency services are part of this facility’s reported scope, a factor that shapes both case mix and No-Surprises-Act balance-billing exposure for patients treated here.
Across CMS's three benchmarked quality categories, this facility's mortality reads 1 above avg, 6 same as avg, patient safety reads 1 above avg, 4 same as avg, 1 below avg, and 30-day readmission reads 10 same as avg, each measured against the national average.
What "better/same/worse than average" means
These indicators are risk-adjusted to account for patient severity and are drawn from Medicare claims data. A "same as average" result is the most common category for US hospitals and does not imply poor care; "worse than average" findings are statistically significant and warrant follow-up with the facility's quality department.
Published MRF pricing data is not currently indexed for this hospital.
Using this data to shop for care
Under the Hospital Price Transparency Rule, providers must post standard charges in a machine-readable file; contact the hospital's billing office directly for a Good Faith Estimate specific to your procedure and coverage. Patients should always verify insurance network status, request an itemized estimate before scheduled procedures, and compare negotiated rates across multiple facilities when time allows. This page provides publicly reported CMS data for informational reference, not medical or financial advice.
Contact
(479) 441-4000
1001 TOWSON AVENUE, Fort Smith, AR 72901
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Every figure on PlainProcedure is rendered directly from CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on two separate CMS sources: pricing figures from CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners claims data, and the overall Star Rating from the CMS Care Compare / Hospital Compare quality-reporting program. No figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.