CMS certification 453310
Dell Children's Medical Center
4900 Mueller Blvd, Austin, TX 78723
This page brings together federal quality data for this hospital: its CMS star rating, patient survey results, emergency department times, and death, complication, infection and readmission rates, each compared with the national rate. Everything here comes from CMS and NPPES, the federal sources themselves - not from us.
What patients said
Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.
Not reported for this hospital
CMS had too few cases here to publish results for deaths, complications, infections caught in the hospital, readmissions and return visits. That is common at small, rural and specialty hospitals, and says nothing either way about quality.
Clinicians registered at this address
385 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry, plus 12 residents and trainees. The same address can take in offices and clinics in the building, and a listing does not prove admitting privileges or current employment.
| Specialty | Clinicians |
|---|---|
| Pediatrics | 189 |
| Pediatric Critical Care Medicine | 27 |
| Clinical | 17 |
| Pediatrics, Critical Care | 13 |
| Physician Assistant | 13 |
| Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 12 |
| Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine | 9 |
| Psychiatry | 9 |
| Family | 7 |
| Pediatric Emergency Medicine | 7 |
| Psychologist | 6 |
| Pharmacist | 5 |
First 12 alphabetically
Money from drug and device companies
Drug and device makers have to report what they pay teaching hospitals to CMS's Open Payments program. At many teaching hospitals most of it is research funding, or royalties for inventions the hospital licensed to a company. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.
- 2019 $774,496
- 2020 $468,193
- 2021 $0
- 2022 $0
- 2023 $1.3M
- 2024 $226,585
- 2025 $72,692
What the 2025 general payments were for
| Type of payment | Amount | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| Education | $23,911 | 1 |
| Space rental and facility fees | $4,995 | 1 |
| Debt forgiveness | $382 | 1 |
Largest paying companies, 2025
| Company | Amount | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| Olympus America Inc. | $23,911 | 1 |
| Abbvie INC. | $20,500 | 3 |
| Zevra Therapeutics Inc | $11,698 | 1 |
| Neuropace, INC. | $8,373 | 31 |
| Baxter Healthcare | $5,377 | 2 |
| Artivion, Inc. | $2,488 | 3 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals INC. | $300 | 1 |
| Incyte Corporation | $45 | 1 |
Largest research studies funded here, 2025
| Study | Amount |
|---|---|
| A Study of Oral Atogepant Tablets to Assess Adverse Events and Change in Disease Activity To Prevent Migraine in Participants Aged 12 to 17 Years ABBVIE INC. | $19,000 |
| Early Access Program With Arimoclomol in US Patients With NPC Zevra Therapeutics Inc · NCT04316637 | $11,698 |
| Post Approval Study NEUROPACE, INC. | $8,373 |
| PERSEVERE Artivion, Inc. · NCT05174767 | $2,488 |
| M18-868 - A Study to Assess Disease Activity and Adverse Events of Intravenous (IV) Telisotuzumab Vedotin Compared to IV Docetaxel in Adult Participa… ABBVIE INC. | $1,500 |
| ONC201 for the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed H3 K27M-mutant Diffuse Glioma Following Completion of Radiotherapy: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-C… JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS INC. | $300 |
| A Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Ruxolitinib Cream in Pediatric Participants With Nonsegmental Vitiligo Incyte Corporation | $45 |
Amounts are as the paying companies reported them to CMS; Open Payments data retrieved 13 Sep 2026. Full record on CMS Open Payments.
How to read this page
- Everything here is published by CMS on Care Compare. We arrange it and explain it; the star ratings and the better / worse verdicts are CMS's, not ours.
- “No different” is the most common result on most measures at most hospitals. CMS only calls a result better or worse when the difference from the national rate is statistically clear.
- Death, complication and readmission rates are adjusted by CMS for how sick patients were, so hospitals that treat sicker patients can be compared fairly.
- Infection results are ratios: 1.0 means as many infections as CMS predicted for a hospital like this one, below 1.0 is fewer.
- These are hospital-wide results. They do not rate an individual doctor, nurse or department, and they are not medical advice.
CMS Care Compare data retrieved 4 Oct 2026, refreshed weekly. Where this data comes from and how we handle it · Report an error
Common questions about Dell Children's Medical Center
Does Dell Children's Medical Center have an emergency room?
Yes. CMS lists emergency services at Dell Children's Medical Center.
Does Dell Children's Medical Center receive money from drug and device companies?
Drug and device makers reported $72,692 in payments to Dell Children's Medical Center for 2025, most of it research funding, under the federal Open Payments program. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.