Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Taylor
Part of Baylor Scott & White Healthsee all 28 affiliated facilities
Emergency & urgent care
How this emergency department performs on the measures that matter most when you need care fast.
From CMS Timely & Effective Care reporting.
Quality measures
Mortality
Same as National AverageMeasures the rate at which patients die within 30 days of hospital admission for specific conditions. A lower mortality rate indicates better outcomes.
Safety of Care
Tracks hospital-acquired infections, surgical complications, and other patient safety indicators. Lower rates indicate better safety practices.
Readmissions
Measures how often patients return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Lower readmission rates suggest effective treatment and discharge planning.
Patient Experience
Based on the HCAHPS survey — patient satisfaction with communication, cleanliness, pain management, and discharge information.
Patient survey detail — the questions feeding the Patient Experience domain above expand ↓
CMS computes the Patient Experience domain from the federal HCAHPS survey. Each bar below is one survey question; the percentage is the share of Baylor's recent patients who gave the most positive response. HCAHPS percentages aren't directly comparable across all measures — see the methodology page for how CMS weights them.
- Communication with Nurses 87%
- Communication with Doctors 88%
- Hospital Cleanliness 83%
- Hospital Quietness 75%
- Staff Responsiveness N/A
- Discharge Information 89%
- Overall Hospital Rating (9 or 10) 73%
- Would Recommend Hospital 73%
Percentages represent patients who gave the most positive response. Survey conducted by CMS through the HCAHPS program.
Timely & Effective Care
Better than National AverageMeasures how quickly the hospital provides important treatments such as antibiotics for pneumonia or interventions for heart attacks.
Clinical Staff
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Taylor has 159 CMS-affiliated clinicians on its roster — physicians, advanced practice providers, and other Medicare-enrolled professionals who list this hospital as an affiliated facility.
Top specialties
- Internal Medicine 32
- Physician Assistant 22
- Family Practice 15
- Nurse Practitioner 14
- Cardiovascular Disease (Cardiology) 9
- Nephrology 6
- Pulmonary Disease 6
- Gastroenterology 5
Self-reported primary specialty in the CMS Doctors & Clinicians dataset. Many clinicians serve multiple facilities.
Practice characteristics
- Accept Medicare assignment
- 157 (99%)
- Offer telehealth
- 102 (64%)
Bill Medicare directly at the approved rate — patients only owe co-insurance/deductible.
Indicated by the clinician in their CMS profile as routinely providing virtual visits.
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare) national downloadable file and MIPS Performance Year final scores, as of 2026-10-10. Affiliations from the CMS Facility Affiliations dataset. About 16% of small facilities (critical access, rural emergency, freestanding psych, IRF/LTCH) do not appear in the affiliations file and therefore have no panel.
Find a Doctor
Search the 159 clinicians affiliated with Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Taylor. Each name links to that clinician's official Medicare Care Compare profile, where you can see their credentials, secondary specialties, group affiliations, and (when applicable) MIPS quality scores.
- Ossama Abou Hassan, MD Open PaymentsCardiovascular Disease (cardiology)📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Hematology/oncology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Shema R. Ahmad, MD Open PaymentsEndocrinology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Gastroenterology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Samantha L. Alvarez, PA Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Melissa S. Angel, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Sandy I. Anne, MD Open PaymentsHematology/oncology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Otolaryngology✓ Medicare
- Diagnostic Radiology✓ Medicare
- Mary J. Avena, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Family Practice✓ Medicare
- Tres A. Barrera, MD Open PaymentsEndocrinology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Chakri S. Bilva, MD ProceduresInternal Medicine📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Joelle I. Black, PA Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Tatum J. Bohls, PA Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine
- Michelle Brusen, PA Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Gastroenterology✓ Medicare
- Interventional Cardiology✓ Medicare
- Internal Medicine✓ Medicare
- Physician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Nurse Practitioner📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Jaime A. Caro, PA Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (crna)✓ Medicare
- Christine K. Carter, PA Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Leticia Castillo Kontak, MD Open PaymentsCardiovascular Disease (cardiology)📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Chandana T. Chakka, MD Open PaymentsInternal Medicine✓ Medicare
- Franklin Chang, MD ProceduresFamily Practice📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)✓ Medicare
- Cardiac Electrophysiology✓ Medicare
No clinicians match that search. Try a broader term like "internal medicine" or just a last name.
Roster from CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare), updated 2026-10-10. A clinician may also practice at other facilities; "affiliated" means this hospital is on their CMS profile, not that they exclusively work here. Procedure volumes are Medicare fee-for-service counts from the CMS clinician utilization file (all practice locations, not just this hospital). Industry payment totals are from CMS Open Payments, program year 2024, and include meals, travel, consulting, and speaking fees; payments are legal and common — we show them for transparency, not as a quality judgment.
Pricing & Costs
This hospital participates in price transparency under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. View 773 published procedures — gross charges, cash prices, and per-payer negotiated rates where available.
View full pricing →Facility Information
- Licensed beds
- 25
- Facility type
- Critical Access Hospitals
- Ownership
- Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Emergency services
- Yes — 24/7
Ownership & Finances
- Ownership
- Nonprofit
- Charity care spend (FY2023)
- $3.8M
- List prices vs. actual cost
- ≈ 4.5× actual cost
From the hospital's FY2023 Medicare cost report (HCRIS).
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How Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Taylor compares nearby
Compared with the 5 other acute-care hospitals within 25 miles — 6 facilities in all, CMS data only.
Among the 6 acute-care hospitals within 25 miles, CMS rates Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Taylor's mortality about the same as the national average; the median among the 5 peers reporting it is about the same as the national average.
| Measure | This facility | Nearby median |
|---|---|---|
| Overall star rating reported by 5 of 5 nearby peers | Not available | 4★ |
| Patient experience (HCAHPS) star reported by 5 of 5 nearby peers | Not available | 3★ |
| Mortality reported by 5 of 5 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Same as National Average |
| Safety of Care reported by 5 of 5 nearby peers | Not available | Same as National Average |
| Readmissions reported by 5 of 5 nearby peers | Not available | Same as National Average |
The comparison group
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Pflugerville (Building 1)
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Round Rock
- Ascension Seton Williamson Hospital
- St. David's Round Rock Medical Center
- St. David's North Austin Medical Center
Cohort: within 25 miles · CMS data period 2026-08 · method cohort-v1 · comparisons are never affected by claiming or payment. How nearby comparisons work
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About this data
Quality and ratings data are sourced from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare program. Star ratings are CMS's own calculation; CareRanks does not modify or re-weight them. Facility-level details (address, beds, ownership, teaching status) come from CMS provider files and the CMS Provider of Services file.
Pricing data, where shown, is drawn from the hospital's own Machine-Readable File (MRF) published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. See our methodology for the full update cadence and limitations.