Table 3.

Average penalty under HRRP by safety-net status, 2013-2016

	Safety-net hospitals (N = 479)	Non-safety-net hospitals (N = 1436)	P-value
	%	%
2013	0.37	0.28	< 0.001
2014	0.34	0.25	< 0.001
2015	0.49	0.52	0.296
2016	0.48	0.52	0.207

1) Safety-net hospitals: hospitals that fall in the top quartile of the Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) index; non-safety-net hospitals: hospitals in the bottom three quartiles of the DSH index

2) p-value for difference in average penalty under HRRP between safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals reported for each year, 2013-2016. The reported average penalty is on the proportion of total annual Medicare payments received by the hospital