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HospitalSt Mary's Hospital Estimated FY2026 net: −$897K×

Hospital record · FY2026CCN 110006

1Hospital

St Mary's Hospital

2Location

Athens, GA (Georgia’s hospitals on the map and in the table) 30606

Clarke County

3Type

Minor teaching · 196 beds · Nonprofit · Urban · Rural referral center

4Care Compare stars

1 of 5 stars

Overall rating, CMS Care Compare data of July 22, 2026
Open on Care Compare (opens in a new tab)

5Total HAC Score

1.3011

As CMS reports it

6Payment reduction

1% cut
CMS’s value: Yes

7Estimated cut

$385K estimate
Likely $294⁠–⁠484K; about $189 per traditional Medicare stay

Cut 1%

$385K

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

For fiscal year 2026, CMS reports a Total HAC Score of 1.3011 for St Mary's Hospital and a payment reduction decision of Yes.

That is 1% of about $38.5M, this site’s estimate of what traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays in a year plus the teaching payments Medicare makes on its Medicare Advantage patients’ stays: about $189 per traditional Medicare stay.

Likely range $294–484K

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.

lowest −1.4728 1% cut Middle hospital: −0.0453 Middle hospital−0.0453 CMS’s line: 0.3799 and up CMS’s line0.3799 and up This hospital: 1.3011 This hospital 1.3011 lowest −1.4728 highest 2.3133 1% cut Middle hospital: −0.0453 Middle hospital−0.0453 CMS’s line: 0.3799 and up CMS’s line0.3799 and up This hospital: 1.3011 This hospital 1.3011

Higher than 97% of the other 2,928 scores CMS published (higher is worse).

Its record, fiscal years 2015 to 2026 Cut in 3 of 11 years

  1. 15No
  2. 16No
  3. 17No
  4. 18No
  5. 19Cut
  6. 20No
  7. 21No
  8. 22No
  9. 23—
  10. 24No
  11. 25Cut
  12. 26Cut

Where the score came from

CMS scored this hospital on all 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 0.4490, to 0.8521. Try it in the what-if

Figure 1. Of its 6 measures with a value, this hospital is above the national median on 6; PSI 90 added the most to its score.
  • This hospital
  • National median
  • Scores the same as CMS’s floor or cap
  1. 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 97% 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 value1.4871

    Z-score2.5111

    Part of score+0.4185

  2. 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 79% of the other 2,181 hospitals

    CMS value0.954

    Z-score0.8066

    Part of score+0.1344

  3. 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 95% of the other 2,354 hospitals

    CMS value1.610

    Z-score2.3863

    Part of score+0.3977

  4. 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

    Worse than 52% of the other 2,269 hospitals

    CMS value0.828

    Z-score−0.0381

    Part of score−0.0064

  5. 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 55% 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 value0.386

    Z-score0.0325

    Part of score+0.0054

  6. 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

    Worse than 94% of the other 2,067 hospitals

    CMS value1.706

    Z-score2.1081

    Part of score+0.3514

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

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MeasureCMS valueNational medianZ-scorePart of the scoreAmong hospitals
PSI 901.48710.96232.5111+0.4185Worse than 97% of the other 2,808 hospitals
CLABSI0.9540.5590.8066+0.1344Worse than 79% of the other 2,181 hospitals
CAUTI1.6100.4892.3863+0.3977Worse than 95% of the other 2,354 hospitals
SSI0.8280.795−0.0381−0.0064Worse than 52% of the other 2,269 hospitals
CDI0.3860.3460.0325+0.0054Worse than 55% of the other 2,766 hospitals
MRSA1.7060.6412.1081+0.3514Worse than 94% of the other 2,067 hospitals

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 6; a bar right of zero raised the score and one left of zero lowered it.

(2.5111PSI 90+0.8066CLABSI+2.3863CAUTI−0.0381SSI+0.0325CDI+2.1081MRSA)÷6measures=1.3011Total HAC Score

This hospital’s score is 0.9219 above 0.3792, the highest score CMS marked No. (This site recomputes.)

Figure 2. The parts add up to 1.3011, above CMS’s line.
1% cut PSI 90: z‑score 2.5111 divided by 6 = +0.4185PSI 90+0.4185 CLABSI: z‑score 0.8066 divided by 6 = +0.1344CLABSI+0.1344 CAUTI: z‑score 2.3863 divided by 6 = +0.3977CAUTI+0.3977 SSI: z‑score −0.0381 divided by 6 = −0.0064SSI−0.0064 CDI: z‑score 0.0325 divided by 6 = +0.0054CDI+0.0054 MRSA: z‑score 2.1081 divided by 6 = +0.3514MRSA+0.3514 Total HAC Score: 1.3011Score1.3011 CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line 0.00.51.0 1% cut PSI 90: z‑score 2.5111 divided by 6 = +0.4185PSI 90+0.4185 CLABSI: z‑score 0.8066 divided by 6 = +0.1344CLABSI+0.1344 CAUTI: z‑score 2.3863 divided by 6 = +0.3977CAUTI+0.3977 SSI: z‑score −0.0381 divided by 6 = −0.0064SSI−0.0064 CDI: z‑score 0.0325 divided by 6 = +0.0054CDI+0.0054 MRSA: z‑score 2.1081 divided by 6 = +0.3514MRSA+0.3514 Total HAC Score: 1.3011Score1.3011 CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line 0.00.51.0

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

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MeasureZ-scorePart of the scoreRunning total
PSI 902.5111+0.41850.4185
CLABSI0.8066+0.13440.5529
CAUTI2.3863+0.39770.9506
SSI−0.0381−0.00640.9442
CDI0.0325+0.00540.9496
MRSA2.1081+0.35141.3010
Total HAC Score1.3011
CMS’s line0.37920.3799

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, and of the teaching payments Medicare makes on its Medicare Advantage stays; 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, 0.9219 over the highest score CMS didn’t cut, costs it about $385K by this site’s estimate, and at CMS’s highest score, 2.3133, the cut would be the same.
CMS’s line $0 at any score up to 0.3792 $385K at any score from 0.3799 $0at any score up to 0.3792 $385K at any score from 0.3799 −1012 CMS’s highest score: 2.3133 This hospital: 1.3011 This hospital 1.3011 CMS’s line $0 at any score up to 0.3792 $385K at any score from 0.3799 $0at any score up to 0.3792 $385Kat any score from 0.3799 −1.0−0.50.00.51.01.52.0 CMS’s highest score: 2.3133 This hospital: 1.3011 This hospital 1.3011

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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ScoreTotal HAC ScoreEstimated HAC cut (whole dollars)
Any score up to 0.37920.3792$0
Any score from 0.37990.3799−$385,307
This hospital1.3011−$385,307
CMS’s highest score2.3133−$385,307

The money, line by line

This site estimates what traditional Medicare pays the hospital for a year of inpatient stays, and the teaching payments Medicare makes on its Medicare Advantage patients’ 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.

($35,367,481payment+$3,674,658teaching, MA stays−$309,435readmissions−$201,975value-based)×1%the cut=$385,307HAC cut

$385,307HAC cut÷2,044traditional Medicare stays=$189per traditional Medicare stay

Figure 4. This site estimates the HAC cut at $385K: 1% of the hospital’s whole inpatient payment, taken last. The readmissions and value-based adjustments, on the base alone, came to −$309K and −$202K.

Estimated Medicare inpatient payments · FY2026 estimate

What traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays, and for teaching on Medicare Advantage stays
DRG payments at the federal rates the base $26,223,345
Teaching (indirect medical education) $2,792,524
Teaching on Medicare Advantage stays $3,674,658
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share) $562,229
Outliers: unusually costly stays $135,050
Capital: buildings and equipment $2,314,549
Uncompensated care $3,339,784
Total, before the three programs $39,042,139
The three programs: two on the base, the HAC cut last
Readmissions (HRRP) base × (0.9882 − 1) −$309,435
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) base × (0.9923 − 1) −$201,975
After these two $38,530,729
HAC Reduction Program 1% of everything above; likely $294⁠–⁠484K −$385,307
Net of the three programs likely −$1.1M to −$722K −$896,717

Not paid to this hospital: a Medicare-dependent hospital add-on, a sole community hospital rate difference, and a low-volume adjustment.

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.

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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LineAmount (whole dollars)
DRG payments at the federal rates (the base)$26,223,345
Teaching (indirect medical education)$2,792,524
Teaching on Medicare Advantage stays$3,674,658
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share)$562,229
Outliers: unusually costly stays$135,050
Capital: buildings and equipment$2,314,549
Uncompensated care$3,339,784
Total, before the three programs$39,042,139
Readmissions (HRRP) (base × (0.9882 − 1))−$309,435
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) (base × (0.9923 − 1))−$201,975
After these two$38,530,729
HAC Reduction Program (1% of everything above; likely $294–484K)−$385,307
Net of the three programs (likely −$1.1M to −$722K)−$896,717

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 reportsHypothetical
Total HAC Score1.3011same
Payment reduction decisionYessame
Payment cut1%same
Estimated HAC cut estimate$385Ksame

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 1.3011 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 $385K, 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.

MeasureValue that would read No
PSI 90not possible with this measure alone
CLABSInot possible with this measure alone
CAUTInot possible with this measure alone
SSInot possible with this measure alone
CDInot possible with this measure alone
MRSAnot possible with this measure alone

Each measure weighs 1 ÷ 6 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.

CMS 1.4871 · median 0.9623 · floor 0.7760 · cap 1.3482 · each 0.1 = 0.1164

CMS 0.954 · median 0.559 · cap 1.572 · each 0.1 = 0.0387

CMS 1.610 · median 0.489 · cap 1.537 · each 0.1 = 0.0402

CMS 0.828 · median 0.795 · cap 2.118 · each 0.1 = 0.0286

CMS 0.386 · median 0.346 · cap 0.944 · each 0.1 = 0.0645

CMS 1.706 · median 0.641 · cap 1.762 · each 0.1 = 0.0348

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Figure 5. PSI 90 added the most to this hospital’s Total HAC Score of 1.3011 among its measured results: +0.4185.
  • PSI 90 +0.4185
  • CLABSI +0.1344
  • CAUTI +0.3977
  • SSI −0.0064
  • CDI +0.0054
  • MRSA +0.3514

A measure adds its z‑score divided by 6, 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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MeasureZ-scorePart of the scoreHypothetical
PSI 902.5111+0.4185same
CLABSI0.8066+0.1344same
CAUTI2.3863+0.3977same
SSI−0.0381−0.0064same
CDI0.0325+0.0054same
MRSA2.1081+0.3514same

Interactive what-if at https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/110006/

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.

Its longest run: cut 2 years in a row.

Figure 6. CMS cut this hospital in 3 of the 11 years it made a decision.
highest middle lowest z‑scoresequal weights no scores FY2015: score 2.0000, higher than 4% of scores; not cutFY2016: score 1.7500, higher than 2% of scores; not cutFY2017: score 3.3400, higher than 17% of scores; not cutFY2018: score 0.0504, higher than 56% of scores; not cutFY2019: score 0.433, higher than 78% of scores; cutFY2020: score 0.2735, higher than 71% of scores; not cutFY2021: score 0.1708, higher than 66% of scores; not cutFY2022: score 0.0273, higher than 55% of scores; not cutFY2024: score −0.0854, higher than 46% of scores; not cutFY2025: score 0.9228, higher than 92% of scores; cutFY2026: score 1.3011, higher than 97% of scores; cut 161820222426 highest middle lowest z‑scoresequal weights no scores FY2015: score 2.0000, higher than 4% of scores; not cutFY2016: score 1.7500, higher than 2% of scores; not cutFY2017: score 3.3400, higher than 17% of scores; not cutFY2018: score 0.0504, higher than 56% of scores; not cutFY2019: score 0.433, higher than 78% of scores; cutFY2020: score 0.2735, higher than 71% of scores; not cutFY2021: score 0.1708, higher than 66% of scores; not cutFY2022: score 0.0273, higher than 55% of scores; not cutFY2024: score −0.0854, higher than 46% of scores; not cutFY2025: score 0.9228, higher than 92% of scores; cutFY2026: score 1.3011, higher than 97% of scores; cut 151617181920212223242526

● 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 yearTotal HAC ScoreHigher than this share of scoresPayment reduction
FY20152.00004.7%not cut
FY20161.75002.6%not cut
FY20173.340017.8%not cut
FY20180.050456.9%not cut
FY20190.43378.9%cut
FY20200.273571.5%not cut
FY20210.170866.0%not cut
FY20220.027355.0%not cut
FY2023no decision
FY2024−0.085446.1%not cut
FY20250.922892.7%cut
FY20261.301197.3%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 5 infection measures ended lower than they started.
CLABSI 1.40 → 0.39 1as predicted 0 ’18’21’24 Nation’s middle CLABSI, 2017: 1.398CLABSI, 2018: 0.956CLABSI, 2019: 1.115CLABSI, 2021: 2.615CLABSI, 2022: 1.644CLABSI, 2023: 1.492CLABSI, 2024: 0.390 CAUTI 1.38 → 0.78 1 0 ’18’21’24 CAUTI, 2017: 1.383CAUTI, 2018: 1.075CAUTI, 2019: 1.367CAUTI, 2021: 1.799CAUTI, 2022: 0.197CAUTI, 2023: 2.372CAUTI, 2024: 0.777 SSI, colon 0.32 → 0.32 1 0 ’18’21’24 SSI, colon, 2017: 0.322SSI, colon, 2018: 0.995SSI, colon, 2019: 0.636SSI, colon, 2021: 1.809SSI, colon, 2022: 0.582SSI, colon, 2023: 1.120SSI, colon, 2024: 0.324 MRSA 1.38 → 2.10 1 0 ’18’21’24 MRSA, 2017: 1.377MRSA, 2018: 1.380MRSA, 2019: 1.023MRSA, 2021: 0.000MRSA, 2022: 0.450MRSA, 2023: 1.382MRSA, 2024: 2.102 C. diff 0.86 → 0.46 1 0 ’18’21’24 C. diff, 2017: 0.862C. diff, 2018: 0.460C. diff, 2019: 0.124C. diff, 2021: 0.180C. diff, 2022: 0.491C. diff, 2023: 0.310C. diff, 2024: 0.456 CLABSI 1.40 → 0.39 1as predicted 0 ’18’20’22’24 Nation’s middle CLABSI, 2017: 1.398CLABSI, 2018: 0.956CLABSI, 2019: 1.115CLABSI, 2021: 2.615CLABSI, 2022: 1.644CLABSI, 2023: 1.492CLABSI, 2024: 0.390 CAUTI 1.38 → 0.78 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 CAUTI, 2017: 1.383CAUTI, 2018: 1.075CAUTI, 2019: 1.367CAUTI, 2021: 1.799CAUTI, 2022: 0.197CAUTI, 2023: 2.372CAUTI, 2024: 0.777 SSI, colon 0.32 → 0.32 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 SSI, colon, 2017: 0.322SSI, colon, 2018: 0.995SSI, colon, 2019: 0.636SSI, colon, 2021: 1.809SSI, colon, 2022: 0.582SSI, colon, 2023: 1.120SSI, colon, 2024: 0.324 MRSA 1.38 → 2.10 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 MRSA, 2017: 1.377MRSA, 2018: 1.380MRSA, 2019: 1.023MRSA, 2021: 0.000MRSA, 2022: 0.450MRSA, 2023: 1.382MRSA, 2024: 2.102 C. diff 0.86 → 0.46 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 C. diff, 2017: 0.862C. diff, 2018: 0.460C. diff, 2019: 0.124C. diff, 2021: 0.180C. diff, 2022: 0.491C. diff, 2023: 0.310C. diff, 2024: 0.456

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 yearCLABSICAUTISSI, colonMRSAC. diff
20171.3981.3830.3221.3770.862
20180.9561.0750.9951.3800.460
20191.1151.3670.6361.0230.124
20212.6151.7991.8090.0000.180
20221.6440.1970.5820.4500.491
20231.4922.3721.1201.3820.310
20240.3900.7770.3242.1020.456

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 Georgia, its score is higher than 100% of the other 88 scored there.

Figure 8. Its score is above the middle in all 7 groups it belongs to; the share cut runs from 21% (Minor teaching) to 30% (Georgia).
All hospitals: CMS cut 718 of 2,886 (25%); middle score −0.0453All hospitals 2,886 hospitals25% cut South region: CMS cut 263 of 1,174 (22%); middle score −0.1056South region 1,174 hospitals22% cut Georgia: CMS cut 27 of 89 (30%); middle score 0.0932Georgia 89 hospitals30% cut Minor teaching: CMS cut 181 of 873 (21%); middle score −0.0567Minor teaching 873 hospitals21% cut 100 to 299 beds: CMS cut 275 of 1,193 (23%); middle score −0.0732100 to 299 beds 1,193 hospitals23% cut Nonprofit: CMS cut 478 of 1,830 (26%); middle score −0.0134Nonprofit 1,830 hospitals26% cut Urban: CMS cut 510 of 2,241 (23%); middle score −0.0574Urban 2,241 hospitals23% cut CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line −1012 This hospital: 1.3011 This hospital 1.3011 All hospitals: CMS cut 718 of 2,886 (25%); middle score −0.0453All hospitals2,886 hospitals25% cut South region: CMS cut 263 of 1,174 (22%); middle score −0.1056South region1,174 hospitals22% cut Georgia: CMS cut 27 of 89 (30%); middle score 0.0932Georgia89 hospitals30% cut Minor teaching: CMS cut 181 of 873 (21%); middle score −0.0567Minor teaching873 hospitals21% cut 100 to 299 beds: CMS cut 275 of 1,193 (23%); middle score −0.0732100 to 299 beds1,193 hospitals23% cut Nonprofit: CMS cut 478 of 1,830 (26%); middle score −0.0134Nonprofit1,830 hospitals26% cut Urban: CMS cut 510 of 2,241 (23%); middle score −0.0574Urban2,241 hospitals23% cut CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line −1.5−1.0−0.50.00.51.01.52.0 This hospital: 1.3011 This hospital 1.3011

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

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GroupWith a decisionHospitals cutShare cutMiddle scoreHospital higher than
All hospitals2,88671825%−0.045397%
South region1,17426322%−0.105697%
Georgia892730%0.0932100%
Minor teaching87318121%−0.056799%
100 to 299 beds1,19327523%−0.073298%
Nonprofit1,83047826%−0.013498%
Urban2,24151023%−0.057498%
This hospital1.3011
CMS’s line0.37920.3799

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 about a mile away.
5 mi10 mi25 mi8. Piedmont Rockdale Hospital, Conyers: score 0.1479, not cut, 39 miles87. Piedmont Eastside Medical Center, Snellville: score 0.1603, not cut, 36 miles76. Piedmont Newton Hospital, Covington: score −0.2734, not cut, 35 miles65. Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc, Gainesville: score 0.5006, cut, 34 miles54. Northside Hospital Gwinnett, Lawrenceville: score 0.2853, not cut, 30 miles43. Piedmont Walton Hospital, Monroe: score 0.0379, not cut, 20 miles32. NGMC Barrow, LLC, Winder: score 1.0547, cut, 18 miles21. Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens: score −0.0044, not cut, about a mile1This hospital: St Mary's Hospital

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

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HospitalMilesScoreDecision
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens, GA1−0.0044not cut
NGMC Barrow, LLC, Winder, GA181.0547cut
Piedmont Walton Hospital, Monroe, GA200.0379not cut
Northside Hospital Gwinnett, Lawrenceville, GA300.2853not cut
Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc, Gainesville, GA340.5006cut
Piedmont Newton Hospital, Covington, GA35−0.2734not cut
Piedmont Eastside Medical Center, Snellville, GA360.1603not cut
Piedmont Rockdale Hospital, Conyers, GA390.1479not cut

#HospitalMilesScoreDecisionEst. cut ($, modeled)Measures
1Piedmont Athens Regional Medical CenterAthens, GA1−0.0044No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
2NGMC Barrow, LLCWinder, GA181.05471% cut$38KAbove the national median on 2 of 2 measures
3Piedmont Walton HospitalMonroe, GA200.0379No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
4Northside Hospital GwinnettLawrenceville, GA300.2853No cut$0Above the national median on 5 of 6 measures
5Northeast Georgia Medical Center, IncGainesville, GA340.50061% cut$2.0MAbove the national median on 5 of 6 measures
6Piedmont Newton HospitalCovington, GA35−0.2734No cut$0Above the national median on 2 of 6 measures
7Piedmont Eastside Medical CenterSnellville, GA360.1603No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
8Piedmont Rockdale HospitalConyers, GA390.1479No cut$0Above the national median on 2 of 6 measures

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Paid & Penalized. St Mary's Hospital, Athens, GA: Hospital-Acquired Conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/110006/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.