Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Buda

• CMS gives no overall star rating: what this means: “There are too few measures or measure groups reported to calculate a star rating or measure group score.”
• Of the measures behind its star rating: what this means, CMS counts against the national value: mortality, 0 better and 0 worse of 1; safety of care, 0 better and 0 worse of 1; readmission, 0 better and 0 worse of 1.
• CMS gives no patient survey rating: what this means: “The number of cases/patients is too few to report a star rating.”
• In CMS’s patient survey (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025): 91% rated it 9 or 10 out of 10, and 88% would definitely recommend it.
• CMS’s patient safety composite for serious complications, PSI 90, Jul 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2024: no different than the national value.
• After outpatient care, compared by CMS: unplanned hospital visits after a colonoscopy, no different than the national rate; unplanned hospital visits after outpatient surgery, no different than expected.
• Emergency department patients spent a median of 106 minutes there before leaving (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025), and 1% left before being seen.
• 89% of patients with severe sepsis or septic shock got the care CMS measures, SEP-1 (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025).
• Medicare’s spending per patient here is 0.85 times the national median (Jan 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024).

• Medicare-certified acute care hospital since Nov 20, 2019.
• Ownership: voluntary non-profit - private.
• It is accredited by The Joint Commission, whose surveys stand in for the state’s routine inspections.
• No inspection on record in the last three years to show whether it met Medicare’s rules for hospitals.
• Voluntary non-profit - Private.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for hospitals.
• Not among the hospitals whose Medicare payments CMS cut under the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program for fiscal year 2026.
• No complaint investigation on record in the last three years.

• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for hospitals.
• 85% of its health care workers got a flu shot (Oct 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025).

• Scott & White Healthcare and Baylor Scott & White Health and Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Capitol Area run it.
• 29 owners or officers are people: William Rogers (corporate director, 0%); Justin Meier (runs it (operational or managerial control), 0%); Pamela Linton (corporate director, 0%); Mark L Montgomery (corporate director, 0%); Mark W English (corporate director, 0%); Terry Maness (corporate director, 0%); Dominic Lucia (corporate director, 0%); William D Digaetano (corporate director, 0%); Muralidhar Jatla (corporate director, 0%); Rodrick Robinson (corporate director, 0%); Marissa Yarid Almazan (corporate director, 0%); Jim Kruse (corporate director, 0%); Timothy L Owens (corporate director, 0%); Nelda Trevino (corporate director, 0%); Jason Cole (corporate officer, 0%); Jason Cole (managing employee (on the payroll), 0%); Jason Cole (runs it (operational or managerial control), 0%); Jeff Schmeltekopf (corporate director, 0%); Amy J Wilson (corporate director, 0%); Harry Dugger (corporate director, 0%); Angel Eduardo Caldera (corporate director, 0%); Kristen Leslie Manos (corporate director, 0%); Andra Liemandt (corporate director, 0%); Jarvis Parsons (corporate director, 0%); Megan Kiella (corporate director, 0%); Jay Fox (corporate officer, 0%); Jay Fox (managing employee (on the payroll), 0%); Jay Fox (runs it (operational or managerial control), 0%); Lisa Hultz (corporate director, 0%).
• CMS’s Provider of Services file records no change of ownership.
• No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
• No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.

• Of the 4 hospitals CMS lists in Hays County, 2 have an overall star rating from CMS: 1 rated 4 of 5, 1 rated 3 of 5.
• CMS gives this hospital no overall star rating to compare.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for hospitals, so none are shown. The one payment cut CMS publishes for each hospital, under its Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, is shown where it applies.
• Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
• Most hospitals are accredited by a private organisation (The Joint Commission, DNV and others) whose routine inspections stand in for the state’s; those reports aren’t public, and QCOR holds only the state’s surveys: no inspection on record here doesn’t mean none took place.
• QCOR says its hospital inspection data are complete only through September 17, 2026, while it moves to a new system.
• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for hospitals.

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital General Information (xubh-q36u).

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Patient survey (HCAHPS) - Hospital.

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Healthcare Associated Infections - Hospital (77hc-ibv8).

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Complications and Deaths - Hospital (ynj2-r877).

  Released Sep 30, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Unplanned Hospital Visits - Hospital (632h-zaca).

  Released Sep 30, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Timely and Effective Care - Hospital (yv7e-xc69).

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary - Hospital (rrqw-56er).

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program (yq43-i98g).

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated yearly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Provider of Services File - Hospital & Non-Hospital Facilities (Hospital_and_other.DATA.Q3_2026.csv).

  Released Oct 14, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR Hospital 2567 statements of deficiencies (Hospital_2567s_2010_to_2026YTD.xlsx).

  Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital All Owners (Hospital_All_Owners_2026.09.29.csv).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital Enrollments (Hospital_Enrollments_2026.09.29.csv).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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