Hospital record · FY2026CCN 050298

1Hospital

Barstow Community Hospital

2Location

Barstow, CA (California’s hospitals on the map and in the table) 92311

San Bernardino County

3Type

Not a teaching hospital · 56 beds · For-profit · Urban · Sole community hospital

4Care Compare stars

1 of 5 stars

Overall rating, CMS Care Compare data of July 22, 2026
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5Total HAC Score

1.2103

As CMS reports it

6Payment reduction

1% cut

CMS’s value: Yes

7Estimated cut

$58K estimate

Likely $41⁠–⁠65K; about $206 per traditional Medicare stay

Cut 1%

$58K

cut from its FY2026 Medicare inpatient payments, this site estimates estimate

For fiscal year 2026, CMS reports a Total HAC Score of 1.2103 for Barstow Community Hospital and a payment reduction decision of Yes.

That is 1% of about $5.8M, this site’s estimate of what traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays in a year: about $206 per traditional Medicare stay.

Likely range $41–65K

Its score was above CMS’s line, so CMS cut its Medicare inpatient payments by 1% for the year. The score compares hospitals with each other; it is not a grade of the quality of care.

CMS cut scores of 0.3799 and above.

Each year CMS cuts the hospitals with the highest quarter of scores, those above the 75th percentile, so the line moves with other hospitals’ scores.

Higher than 96% of the other 2,928 scores CMS published (higher is worse).

Its record, fiscal years 2015 to 2026 Cut in 2 of 11 years

15No
16No
17No
18No
19No
20No
21No
22Cut
23—
24No
25No
26Cut

Where the score came from

CMS scored this hospital on 4 of the 6 measures. On every measure a lower value is better. Each row puts the hospital among every hospital with a value: the gray columns are those hospitals, the tall tick is the national median, and the hatched ends score the same as CMS’s floor or cap.

Bringing PSI 90 down to the national median (0.9623) would lower the score the most: by 0.6046, to 0.6057. Try it in the what-if

Figure 1. Of its 4 measures with a value, this hospital is above the national median on 4; PSI 90 added the most to its score.

This hospital
National median
Scores the same as CMS’s floor or cap

PSI 90 (what it counts)
Safety problems such as serious bedsores, falls that break a bone and blood clots after surgery, found by CMS in traditional Medicare claims. A value of 1 matches the national composite value.
added the most
Patient safety and adverse events composite
Worse than 94% of the other 2,808 hospitals
estimate

This site recomputes this measure’s z‑score from CMS’s published value. The recompute can differ from CMS’s z‑score by up to 0.0021. How this site estimates

CMS value1.3087

Z-score2.2356

Part of score+0.5589
CLABSI (what it counts)
Bloodstream infections tied to a central line, a tube often placed in a large vein in the neck, chest or groin. Hospitals report them to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. A value of 1.0 means as many infections as the CDC’s model predicted.
Central line–associated bloodstream infections
Worse than 69% of the other 2,181 hospitals

CMS value0.778

Z-score0.3983

Part of score+0.0996
CAUTI (what it counts)
Urinary tract infections that start from a urinary catheter, a tube that drains the bladder. Hospitals report them to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. A value of 1.0 means as many infections as the CDC’s model predicted.
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
Worse than 55% of the other 2,354 hospitals

CMS value0.553

Z-score0.0144

Part of score+0.0036
SSI (what it counts)
Deep infections at the site of colon surgery or an abdominal hysterectomy, within a month of the operation, pooled into one measure. Hospitals report them to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. A value of 1.0 means as many infections as the CDC’s model predicted.
Surgical site infections after colon surgery or abdominal hysterectomy
Not scored on this measure
CMS footnote 13: Results cannot be calculated for this reporting period.
CMS footnote 5: Results are not available for this reporting period.

CMS valueno value published

Z-scoreno value published

Part of scoreno value published
CDI (what it counts)
C. diff infections, which cause diarrhea and inflammation of the colon, found by a lab test and starting in the hospital. Hospitals report them to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. A value of 1.0 means as many infections as the CDC’s model predicted.
Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections
Worse than 99% of the other 2,766 hospitals
estimate

This site recomputes this measure’s z‑score from CMS’s published value. The recompute can differ from CMS’s z‑score by up to 0.0071. How this site estimates

CMS value2.630

Z-score2.1931

Part of score+0.5483
MRSA (what it counts)
Bloodstream infections with MRSA, a germ that resists several antibiotics, found by a lab test and starting in the hospital. Hospitals report them to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. A value of 1.0 means as many infections as the CDC’s model predicted.
MRSA bloodstream infections
Not scored on this measure
CMS footnote 13: Results cannot be calculated for this reporting period.
CMS footnote 5: Results are not available for this reporting period.

CMS valueno value published

Z-scoreno value published

Part of scoreno value published

Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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Measure	CMS value	National median	Z-score	Part of the score	Among hospitals
PSI 90	1.3087	0.9623	2.2356	+0.5589	Worse than 94% of the other 2,808 hospitals
CLABSI	0.778	0.559	0.3983	+0.0996	Worse than 69% of the other 2,181 hospitals
CAUTI	0.553	0.489	0.0144	+0.0036	Worse than 55% of the other 2,354 hospitals
SSI	no value published	0.795	no value published	no value published	Not scored on this measure
CDI	2.630	0.346	2.1931	+0.5483	Worse than 99% of the other 2,766 hospitals
MRSA	no value published	0.641	no value published	no value published	Not scored on this measure

How the parts add up

CMS adds the z‑scores and divides by the number of measures scored, so each measure counts the same. Each bar below is one z‑score divided by 4; a bar right of zero raised the score and one left of zero lowered it.

(2.2356PSI 90+0.3983CLABSI+0.0144CAUTI+2.1931CDI)÷4measures=1.2103Total HAC Score

Added from the rounded z‑scores CMS published, the parts make 1.2104; CMS reports 1.2103. The small difference is rounding.

This hospital’s score is 0.8311 above 0.3792, the highest score CMS marked No. (This site recomputes.)

Figure 2. The parts add up to 1.2103, above CMS’s line.

This site recomputes · Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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Measure	Z-score	Part of the score	Running total
PSI 90	2.2356	+0.5589	0.5589
CLABSI	0.3983	+0.0996	0.6585
CAUTI	0.0144	+0.0036	0.6621
CDI	2.1931	+0.5483	1.2104
Total HAC Score			1.2103
CMS’s line		0.3792	0.3799

The money is a cliff

This program’s cut doesn’t grow with the score. Over CMS’s line, CMS cuts 1% of what traditional Medicare pays a hospital for inpatient stays that year; at or under the line, this program cuts nothing.

The chart draws what the cut would be for this hospital at any Total HAC Score, from this site’s estimate of its payments, with its own score marked.

Figure 3. The cut is a cliff, not a slope: this hospital’s score, 0.8311 over the highest score CMS didn’t cut, costs it about $58K by this site’s estimate, and at CMS’s highest score, 2.3133, the cut would be the same.

Under the axis, every Total HAC Score CMS published: 306 of the 2,929 scored within 0.1 of CMS’s line, on one side or the other.

Estimate · Source: this site’s arithmetic on CMS’s FY2026 IPPS final rule files (the impact file, the rate tables and the value-based factors), its FY2026 HRRP supplemental file and HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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Score	Total HAC Score	Estimated HAC cut (whole dollars)
Any score up to 0.3792	0.3792	$0
Any score from 0.3799	0.3799	−$57,546
This hospital	1.2103	−$57,546
CMS’s highest score	2.3133	−$57,546

The money, line by line

This site estimates what traditional Medicare pays the hospital for a year of inpatient stays, from CMS’s FY2026 payment files, then applies Medicare’s three hospital quality programs: the readmissions and value-based adjustments to the base payment, and the HAC cut last, as the law sets.

The readmissions and value-based programs adjust only the base payment: the DRG rates times the hospital’s cases, and a Medicare-dependent hospital’s add-on. The HAC cut comes last and takes 1% of everything left, teaching, low-income-patient, outlier, capital and uncompensated care payments included.

($5,774,791payment+$0readmissions−$20,208value-based)×1%the cut=$57,546HAC cut

$57,546HAC cut÷279traditional Medicare stays=$206per traditional Medicare stay

Figure 4. This site estimates the HAC cut at $58K: 1% of the hospital’s whole inpatient payment, taken last. The readmissions and value-based adjustments, on the base alone, came to $0 and −$20K.

Estimated Medicare inpatient payments · FY2026 estimate

What traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays
DRG payments at the federal rates the base	$3,906,043
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share)	$117,181
Outliers: unusually costly stays	$35,389
Sole community hospital rate difference	$631,651
Low-volume adjustment	$780,869
Capital: buildings and equipment	$303,658
Total, before the three programs	$5,774,791
The three programs: two on the base, the HAC cut last
Readmissions (HRRP) base × (1.0000 − 1)	$0
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) base × (0.9948 − 1)	−$20,208
After these two	$5,754,583
HAC Reduction Program 1% of everything above; likely $41⁠–⁠65K	−$57,546
Net of the three programs likely −$82K to −$54K	−$77,754

Not paid to this hospital: a Medicare-dependent hospital add-on, teaching payments, and uncompensated care payments.

Whole dollars, so every line adds up; the estimate is not that precise. Each likely range spans the middle 80% of the misses this site’s estimate made for similar hospitals (or for a wider group, where there were too few) when it was checked against their FY2024 cost reports: one year’s check, not a promise of how often a hospital’s actual figure lands inside.

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Line	Amount (whole dollars)
DRG payments at the federal rates (the base)	$3,906,043
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share)	$117,181
Outliers: unusually costly stays	$35,389
Sole community hospital rate difference	$631,651
Low-volume adjustment	$780,869
Capital: buildings and equipment	$303,658
Total, before the three programs	$5,774,791
Readmissions (HRRP) (base × (1.0000 − 1))	$0
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) (base × (0.9948 − 1))	−$20,208
After these two	$5,754,583
HAC Reduction Program (1% of everything above; likely $41–65K)	−$57,546
Net of the three programs (likely −$82K to −$54K)	−$77,754

What if a measure were different?

Change a measure’s value to see how this site recomputes the Total HAC Score, the payment reduction decision and, by its estimate, the money, starting from CMS’s values. The money doesn’t slide with the score: it drops off a cliff at CMS’s line.

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	CMS reports	Hypothetical
Total HAC Score	1.2103	same
Payment reduction decision	Yes	same
Payment cut	1%	same
Estimated HAC cut estimate	$58K	same

CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799

The faint ticks are CMS’s line in earlier years under the same formula, from about 0.300 (FY2022) to about 0.375 (FY2024). The line moves every year, so a hospital can cross it without changing anything.

CMS reports a Total HAC Score of 1.2103 and a payment reduction decision of Yes.

A what-if shows the formula’s arithmetic, not what a hospital could realistically change or how. CMS’s real result also depends on other hospitals.

What would it take?

Getting under CMS’s line would keep about $58K, this site estimates: the whole cut, however far under the score lands.

From CMS’s values, one measure at a time, with every other measure held at CMS’s value.

Measure	Value that would read No
PSI 90	0.8324 or lower
CLABSI	not possible with this measure alone
CAUTI	not possible with this measure alone
CDI	0.085 or lower

Each measure weighs 1 ÷ 4 of the score.

Measure values

SIR 1.0 = as many infections as predicted · Lower is better

On each track the tick is the national median; shaded values score the same as the floor or cap, as this site fits them to CMS’s values.

Patient safety and adverse events composite PSI 90

PSI 90 value

CMS 1.3087 · median 0.9623 · floor 0.7760 · cap 1.3482 · each 0.1 = 0.1745

Central line–associated bloodstream infections CLABSI

CLABSI value

CMS 0.778 · median 0.559 · cap 1.572 · each 0.1 = 0.0580

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections CAUTI

CAUTI value

CMS 0.553 · median 0.489 · cap 1.537 · each 0.1 = 0.0603

Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections CDI

CDI value

CMS 2.630 · median 0.346 · cap 0.944 · each 0.1 = 0.0968

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Figure 5. PSI 90 added the most to this hospital’s Total HAC Score of 1.2103 among its measured results: +0.5589.

PSI 90 +0.5589
CLABSI +0.0996
CAUTI +0.0036
CDI +0.5483

A measure adds its z‑score divided by 4, the number of measures scored. Bars right of the center line raise the score. Hatched: assigned by CMS.

This site recomputes · Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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Measure	Z-score	Part of the score	Hypothetical
PSI 90	2.2356	+0.5589	same
CLABSI	0.3983	+0.0996	same
CAUTI	0.0144	+0.0036	same
CDI	2.1931	+0.5483	same

Interactive what-if at https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/050298/

Among hospitals with a Yes or No payment decision, CMS cut those with a published Total HAC Score of 0.3799 or higher and none at 0.3792 or lower. Maryland’s hospitals are scored but not subject to the reduction.

Held fixed: every other hospital’s results, CMS’s line, and each measure’s mean, spread, floor and cap as this site fits them to CMS’s published values.

Year by year

Where this hospital’s score fell among every hospital’s, each year CMS published one. A score near the top is among the highest; the shaded band is where CMS cut. Places compare across years even where CMS changed how it builds the score.

Figure 6. CMS cut this hospital in 2 of the 11 years it made a decision.

● Red: a year CMS cut it ○ Hollow: a year it didn’t

This site recomputes · Source: CMS, HACRP hospital files for fiscal years 2015 to 2026 (Provider Data Catalog, its archives and, for the oldest years, the Internet Archive’s copies), and CMS’s cut lists for FY2015 and FY2016.

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Fiscal year	Total HAC Score	Higher than this share of scores	Payment reduction
FY2015	1.3500	1.6%	not cut
FY2016	2.2500	6.2%	not cut
FY2017	1.9375	7.3%	not cut
FY2018	−1.0040	7.8%	not cut
FY2019	−0.2726	32.2%	not cut
FY2020	0.1047	61.3%	not cut
FY2021	0.3031	73.2%	not cut
FY2022	1.0975	96.5%	cut
FY2023			no decision
FY2024	0.1852	65.2%	not cut
FY2025	0.1540	63.0%	not cut
FY2026	1.2103	96.6%	cut

Its infections, year by year

This hospital’s infection rate against prediction for each calendar year Care Compare published one, on each measure with at least two years of results (black), over the nation’s middle hospital (gray). Below the dashed line at one, fewer infections than predicted. Each year is measured against the same fixed baseline, not against other hospitals, so unlike the score they can all improve at once.

Figure 7. 3 of its 3 infection measures ended lower than they started.

Source: CMS Care Compare, healthcare-associated infections by hospital, calendar years 2017 to 2024 (Provider Data Catalog archives; the oldest year through the Internet Archive’s copy).

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Calendar year	CLABSI	CAUTI	C. diff
2017			3.330
2018			1.890
2019			0.632
2021	1.845	1.669	0.000
2022	0.937	0.909	0.587
2023		0.000	3.176
2024			2.181

Among hospitals like it

Each row is a group this hospital belongs to, drawn from every hospital in it with a payment decision. Red columns are hospitals past CMS’s line, the ones CMS cut; the short tick is the group’s middle score.

In California, its score is higher than 96% of the other 276 scored there.

In Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA area, its score is higher than 100% of the other 29 scored there.

Figure 8. Its score is above the middle in all 8 groups it belongs to; the share cut runs from 13% (Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA area) to 28% (Fewer than 100 beds).

Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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Group	With a decision	Hospitals cut	Share cut	Middle score	Hospital higher than
All hospitals	2,886	718	25%	−0.0453	96%
West region	593	157	26%	−0.0302	95%
California	277	76	27%	−0.0217	96%
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA area	30	4	13%	−0.3020	100%
Not teaching	1,563	389	25%	−0.1053	95%
Fewer than 100 beds	805	225	28%	−0.1154	92%
For-profit	651	98	15%	−0.2590	96%
Urban	2,241	510	23%	−0.0574	97%
This hospital				1.2103
CMS’s line				0.3792	0.3799

The nearest hospitals

The 8 closest hospitals with a Total HAC Score, in a straight line. The squares are each hospital’s measures in order: filled, above the national median; open, at or below it; hatched, assigned by CMS; blank, not scored.

Figure 9. CMS cut 2 of the 8 nearest hospitals; the closest is 23 miles away.

Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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Hospital	Miles	Score	Decision
Providence St Mary Medical Center, Apple Valley, CA	23	0.4569	cut
Victor Valley Global Medical Center, Victorville, CA	30	0.0953	not cut
Desert Valley Hospital, Victorville, CA	33	−0.9449	not cut
St Bernardine Medical Center, San Bernardino, CA	55	−0.4108	not cut
Community Hospital of San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA	55	−0.5166	not cut
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Colton, CA	60	−0.0272	not cut
Redlands Community Hospital, Redlands, CA	60	0.4496	cut
Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA	60	−0.5774	not cut

#	Hospital	Miles	Score	Decision	Est. cut ($, modeled)	Measures
1	Providence St Mary Medical CenterApple Valley, CA	23	0.4569	1% cut	$383K	Above the national median on 5 of 6 measures
2	Victor Valley Global Medical CenterVictorville, CA	30	0.0953	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 4 of 6 measures
3	Desert Valley HospitalVictorville, CA	33	−0.9449	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 0 of 6 measures
4	St Bernardine Medical CenterSan Bernardino, CA	55	−0.4108	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 2 of 6 measures
5	Community Hospital of San BernardinoSan Bernardino, CA	55	−0.5166	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 2 of 6 measures
6	Arrowhead Regional Medical CenterColton, CA	60	−0.0272	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 4 of 6 measures
7	Redlands Community HospitalRedlands, CA	60	0.4496	1% cut	$256K	Above the national median on 5 of 6 measures
8	Loma Linda University Medical CenterLoma Linda, CA	60	−0.5774	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 1 of 6 measures

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13: Results cannot be calculated for this reporting period.
5: Results are not available for this reporting period.

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Paid & Penalized. Barstow Community Hospital, Barstow, CA: Hospital-Acquired Conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/050298/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.