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HospitalMetrowest Medical Center Estimated FY2026 net: −$887K×

Hospital record · FY2026CCN 220175

1Hospital

Metrowest Medical Center

2Location

Framingham, MA (Massachusetts’s hospitals on the map and in the table) 01701

Middlesex County

3Type

Major teaching · 360 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

0.5504

As CMS reports it

6Payment reduction

1% cut
CMS’s value: Yes

7Estimated cut

$361K estimate
Likely $275⁠–⁠454K; about $176 per traditional Medicare stay

Cut 1%

$361K

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

For fiscal year 2026, CMS reports a Total HAC Score of 0.5504 for Metrowest Medical Center and a payment reduction decision of Yes.

That is 1% of about $36.1M, 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 $176 per traditional Medicare stay.

Likely range $275–454K

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 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: 0.5504 This hospital 0.5504 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: 0.5504 This hospital 0.5504

Higher than 82% of the other 2,928 scores CMS published (higher is worse).

Its record, fiscal years 2015 to 2026 Cut in 9 of 11 years

  1. 15No
  2. 16No
  3. 17Cut
  4. 18Cut
  5. 19Cut
  6. 20Cut
  7. 21Cut
  8. 22Cut
  9. 23—
  10. 24Cut
  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 CAUTI down to the national median (0.489) would lower the score the most: by 0.4210, to 0.1294. That change alone would put the score under CMS’s line. Try it in the what-if

Figure 1. Of its 6 measures with a value, this hospital is above the national median on 4; CAUTI 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.

    Patient safety and adverse events composite

    Worse than 79% 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 value1.0904

    Z-score0.7115

    Part of score+0.1186

  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

    Better than 56% of the other 2,181 hospitals

    CMS value0.489

    Z-score−0.2721

    Part of score−0.0454

  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.

    added the most

    Catheter-associated urinary tract infections

    Worse than 98% of the other 2,354 hospitals

    CMS value2.442

    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

    Better than 87% of the other 2,269 hospitals

    CMS value0.000

    Z-score−1.4565

    Part of score−0.2428

  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 87% 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 value0.720

    Z-score1.3257

    Part of score+0.2210

  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 76% of the other 2,067 hospitals

    CMS value0.988

    Z-score0.6075

    Part of score+0.1013

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 901.09040.96230.7115+0.1186Worse than 79% of the other 2,808 hospitals
CLABSI0.4890.559−0.2721−0.0454Better than 56% of the other 2,181 hospitals
CAUTI2.4420.4892.3863+0.3977Worse than 98% of the other 2,354 hospitals
SSI0.0000.795−1.4565−0.2428Better than 87% of the other 2,269 hospitals
CDI0.7200.3461.3257+0.2210Worse than 87% of the other 2,766 hospitals
MRSA0.9880.6410.6075+0.1013Worse than 76% 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.

(0.7115PSI 90−0.2721CLABSI+2.3863CAUTI−1.4565SSI+1.3257CDI+0.6075MRSA)÷6measures=0.5504Total HAC Score

This hospital’s score is 0.1712 above 0.3792, the highest score CMS marked No. (This site recomputes.)

Figure 2. The parts add up to 0.5504, above CMS’s line.
1% cut PSI 90: z‑score 0.7115 divided by 6 = +0.1186PSI 90+0.1186 CLABSI: z‑score −0.2721 divided by 6 = −0.0454CLABSI−0.0454 CAUTI: z‑score 2.3863 divided by 6 = +0.3977CAUTI+0.3977 SSI: z‑score −1.4565 divided by 6 = −0.2428SSI−0.2428 CDI: z‑score 1.3257 divided by 6 = +0.2210CDI+0.2210 MRSA: z‑score 0.6075 divided by 6 = +0.1013MRSA+0.1013 Total HAC Score: 0.5504Score0.5504 CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line 0.00.10.20.30.40.50.6 1% cut PSI 90: z‑score 0.7115 divided by 6 = +0.1186PSI 90+0.1186 CLABSI: z‑score −0.2721 divided by 6 = −0.0454CLABSI−0.0454 CAUTI: z‑score 2.3863 divided by 6 = +0.3977CAUTI+0.3977 SSI: z‑score −1.4565 divided by 6 = −0.2428SSI−0.2428 CDI: z‑score 1.3257 divided by 6 = +0.2210CDI+0.2210 MRSA: z‑score 0.6075 divided by 6 = +0.1013MRSA+0.1013 Total HAC Score: 0.5504Score0.5504 CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line 0.00.10.20.30.40.50.6

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 900.7115+0.11860.1186
CLABSI−0.2721−0.04540.0732
CAUTI2.3863+0.39770.4709
SSI−1.4565−0.24280.2281
CDI1.3257+0.22100.4491
MRSA0.6075+0.10130.5504
Total HAC Score0.5504
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, 0.1712 over the highest score CMS didn’t cut, costs it about $361K 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 $361K at any score from 0.3799 $0at any score up to 0.3792 $361K at any score from 0.3799 −1012 CMS’s highest score: 2.3133 This hospital: 0.5504 This hospital 0.5504 CMS’s line $0 at any score up to 0.3792 $361K at any score from 0.3799 $0at any score up to 0.3792 $361Kat any score from 0.3799 −1.0−0.50.00.51.01.52.0 CMS’s highest score: 2.3133 CMS’s highest score 2.3133 This hospital: 0.5504 This hospital 0.5504

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−$361,334
This hospital0.5504−$361,334
CMS’s highest score2.3133−$361,334

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.

($33,995,686payment+$2,663,034teaching, MA stays−$346,630readmissions−$178,732value-based)×1%the cut=$361,334HAC cut

$361,334HAC cut÷2,053traditional Medicare stays=$176per traditional Medicare stay

Figure 4. This site estimates the HAC cut at $361K: 1% of the hospital’s whole inpatient payment, taken last. The readmissions and value-based adjustments, on the base alone, came to −$347K and −$179K.

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 $25,487,514
Teaching (indirect medical education) $3,989,306
Teaching on Medicare Advantage stays $2,663,034
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share) $1,075,318
Outliers: unusually costly stays $115,458
Capital: buildings and equipment $2,471,933
Uncompensated care $856,157
Total, before the three programs $36,658,720
The three programs: two on the base, the HAC cut last
Readmissions (HRRP) base × (0.9864 − 1) −$346,630
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) base × (0.9930 − 1) −$178,732
After these two $36,133,358
HAC Reduction Program 1% of everything above; likely $275⁠–⁠454K −$361,334
Net of the three programs likely −$1.0M to −$714K −$886,696

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)$25,487,514
Teaching (indirect medical education)$3,989,306
Teaching on Medicare Advantage stays$2,663,034
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share)$1,075,318
Outliers: unusually costly stays$115,458
Capital: buildings and equipment$2,471,933
Uncompensated care$856,157
Total, before the three programs$36,658,720
Readmissions (HRRP) (base × (0.9864 − 1))−$346,630
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) (base × (0.9930 − 1))−$178,732
After these two$36,133,358
HAC Reduction Program (1% of everything above; likely $275–454K)−$361,334
Net of the three programs (likely −$1.0M to −$714K)−$886,696

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 Score0.5504same
Payment reduction decisionYessame
Payment cut1%same
Estimated HAC cut estimate$361Ksame

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 0.5504 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 $361K, 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 900.9431 or lower
CLABSI0.046 or lower
CAUTI1.110 or lower
SSInot possible with this measure alone
CDI0.454 or lower
MRSA0.496 or lower

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 1.0904 · median 0.9623 · floor 0.7760 · cap 1.3482 · each 0.1 = 0.1164

CMS 0.489 · median 0.559 · cap 1.572 · each 0.1 = 0.0387

CMS 2.442 · median 0.489 · cap 1.537 · each 0.1 = 0.0402

CMS 0.000 · median 0.795 · cap 2.118 · each 0.1 = 0.0286

CMS 0.720 · median 0.346 · cap 0.944 · each 0.1 = 0.0645

CMS 0.988 · median 0.641 · cap 1.762 · each 0.1 = 0.0348

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Figure 5. CAUTI added the most to this hospital’s Total HAC Score of 0.5504 among its measured results: +0.3977.
  • PSI 90 +0.1186
  • CLABSI −0.0454
  • CAUTI +0.3977
  • SSI −0.2428
  • CDI +0.2210
  • MRSA +0.1013

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 900.7115+0.1186same
CLABSI−0.2721−0.0454same
CAUTI2.3863+0.3977same
SSI−1.4565−0.2428same
CDI1.3257+0.2210same
MRSA0.6075+0.1013same

Interactive what-if at https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/220175/

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 6 years in a row.

Figure 6. CMS cut this hospital in 9 of the 11 years it made a decision.
highest middle lowest z‑scoresequal weights no scores FY2015: score 2.9500, higher than 11% of scores; not cutFY2016: score 4.7500, higher than 33% of scores; not cutFY2017: score 7.1100, higher than 84% of scores; cutFY2018: score 0.5462, higher than 83% of scores; cutFY2019: score 0.7299, higher than 89% of scores; cutFY2020: score 0.3773, higher than 77% of scores; cutFY2021: score 0.8933, higher than 94% of scores; cutFY2022: score 0.8534, higher than 92% of scores; cutFY2024: score 0.7938, higher than 88% of scores; cutFY2025: score 0.4455, higher than 79% of scores; cutFY2026: score 0.5504, higher than 82% of scores; cut 161820222426 highest middle lowest z‑scoresequal weights no scores FY2015: score 2.9500, higher than 11% of scores; not cutFY2016: score 4.7500, higher than 33% of scores; not cutFY2017: score 7.1100, higher than 84% of scores; cutFY2018: score 0.5462, higher than 83% of scores; cutFY2019: score 0.7299, higher than 89% of scores; cutFY2020: score 0.3773, higher than 77% of scores; cutFY2021: score 0.8933, higher than 94% of scores; cutFY2022: score 0.8534, higher than 92% of scores; cutFY2024: score 0.7938, higher than 88% of scores; cutFY2025: score 0.4455, higher than 79% of scores; cutFY2026: score 0.5504, higher than 82% 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
FY20152.950011.5%not cut
FY20164.750033.4%not cut
FY20177.110084.2%cut
FY20180.546283.7%cut
FY20190.729989.6%cut
FY20200.377377.5%cut
FY20210.893394.1%cut
FY20220.853492.8%cut
FY2023no decision
FY20240.793888.8%cut
FY20250.445579.3%cut
FY20260.550482.1%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. 4 of its 5 infection measures ended lower than they started.
CLABSI 1.98 → 0.93 1as predicted 0 ’18’21’24 Nation’s middle CLABSI, 2017: 1.975CLABSI, 2018: 0.754CLABSI, 2019: 0.826CLABSI, 2021: 1.672CLABSI, 2022: 1.976CLABSI, 2023: 0.931 CAUTI 0.56 → 3.08 1 0 ’18’21’24 CAUTI, 2017: 0.559CAUTI, 2018: 0.854CAUTI, 2019: 2.697CAUTI, 2021: 0.896CAUTI, 2022: 2.336CAUTI, 2023: 1.917CAUTI, 2024: 3.075 SSI, colon 1.63 → 0.79 1 0 ’18’21’24 SSI, colon, 2019: 1.633SSI, colon, 2021: 0.790 MRSA 0.57 → 0.00 1 0 ’18’21’24 MRSA, 2017: 0.575MRSA, 2018: 0.628MRSA, 2019: 1.319MRSA, 2021: 1.357MRSA, 2022: 0.000MRSA, 2023: 0.000 C. diff 0.52 → 0.50 1 0 ’18’21’24 C. diff, 2017: 0.520C. diff, 2018: 0.504C. diff, 2019: 0.761C. diff, 2021: 0.432C. diff, 2022: 1.061C. diff, 2023: 0.942C. diff, 2024: 0.500 CLABSI 1.98 → 0.93 1as predicted 0 ’18’20’22’24 Nation’s middle CLABSI, 2017: 1.975CLABSI, 2018: 0.754CLABSI, 2019: 0.826CLABSI, 2021: 1.672CLABSI, 2022: 1.976CLABSI, 2023: 0.931 CAUTI 0.56 → 3.08 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 CAUTI, 2017: 0.559CAUTI, 2018: 0.854CAUTI, 2019: 2.697CAUTI, 2021: 0.896CAUTI, 2022: 2.336CAUTI, 2023: 1.917CAUTI, 2024: 3.075 SSI, colon 1.63 → 0.79 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 SSI, colon, 2019: 1.633SSI, colon, 2021: 0.790 MRSA 0.57 → 0.00 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 MRSA, 2017: 0.575MRSA, 2018: 0.628MRSA, 2019: 1.319MRSA, 2021: 1.357MRSA, 2022: 0.000MRSA, 2023: 0.000 C. diff 0.52 → 0.50 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 C. diff, 2017: 0.520C. diff, 2018: 0.504C. diff, 2019: 0.761C. diff, 2021: 0.432C. diff, 2022: 1.061C. diff, 2023: 0.942C. diff, 2024: 0.500

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
20171.9750.5590.5750.520
20180.7540.8540.6280.504
20190.8262.6971.6331.3190.761
20211.6720.8960.7901.3570.432
20221.9762.3360.0001.061
20230.9311.9170.0000.942
20243.0750.500

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 Massachusetts, its score is higher than 76% of the other 51 scored there.

In Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA area, its score is higher than 78% of the other 14 scored there.

Figure 8. Its score is above the middle in all 8 groups it belongs to; the share cut runs from 22% (300 to 499 beds) to 38% (Massachusetts).
All hospitals: CMS cut 718 of 2,886 (25%); middle score −0.0453All hospitals 2,886 hospitals25% cut Northeast region: CMS cut 124 of 436 (28%); middle score 0.0478Northeast region 436 hospitals28% cut Massachusetts: CMS cut 20 of 52 (38%); middle score 0.2735Massachusetts 52 hospitals38% cut Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA area: CMS cut 5 of 15 (33%); middle score 0.2495Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA area15 hospitals33% cut Major teaching: CMS cut 136 of 424 (32%); middle score 0.1780Major teaching 424 hospitals32% cut 300 to 499 beds: CMS cut 113 of 523 (22%); middle score −0.0384300 to 499 beds 523 hospitals22% 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: 0.5504 This hospital 0.5504 All hospitals: CMS cut 718 of 2,886 (25%); middle score −0.0453All hospitals2,886 hospitals25% cut Northeast region: CMS cut 124 of 436 (28%); middle score 0.0478Northeast region436 hospitals28% cut Massachusetts: CMS cut 20 of 52 (38%); middle score 0.2735Massachusetts52 hospitals38% cut Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA area: CMS cut 5 of 15 (33%); middle score 0.2495Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA area15 hospitals33% cut Major teaching: CMS cut 136 of 424 (32%); middle score 0.1780Major teaching424 hospitals32% cut 300 to 499 beds: CMS cut 113 of 523 (22%); middle score −0.0384300 to 499 beds523 hospitals22% 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: 0.5504 This hospital 0.5504

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%−0.045382%
Northeast region43612428%0.047880%
Massachusetts522038%0.273576%
Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA area15533%0.249578%
Major teaching42413632%0.178077%
300 to 499 beds52311322%−0.038487%
Nonprofit1,83047826%−0.013481%
Urban2,24151023%−0.057484%
This hospital0.5504
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 3 of the 8 nearest hospitals; the closest is 8 miles away.
5 mi10 mi8. Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge: score 0.3468, not cut, 16 miles87. Brigham and Women Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain: score 0.4149, cut, 15 miles76. Boston Medical Center-Brighton, Brighton: score −0.2950, not cut, 15 miles65. Emerson Hospital -, W Concord: score −0.5169, not cut, 12 miles54. Milford Regional Medical Center, Milford: score −0.3243, not cut, 10 miles43. Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton: score −0.2052, not cut, 9 miles32. Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham, Needham: score 0.4598, cut, 9 miles21. Marlborough Hospital, Marlborough: score 0.5125, cut, 8 miles1This hospital: Metrowest Medical Center

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

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HospitalMilesScoreDecision
Marlborough Hospital, Marlborough, MA80.5125cut
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham, Needham, MA90.4598cut
Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA9−0.2052not cut
Milford Regional Medical Center, Milford, MA10−0.3243not cut
Emerson Hospital -, W Concord, MA12−0.5169not cut
Boston Medical Center-Brighton, Brighton, MA15−0.2950not cut
Brigham and Women Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, MA150.4149cut
Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA160.3468not cut

#HospitalMilesScoreDecisionEst. cut ($, modeled)Measures
1Marlborough HospitalMarlborough, MA80.51251% cut$171KAbove the national median on 5 of 5 measures
2Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - NeedhamNeedham, MA90.45981% cut$307KAbove the national median on 5 of 6 measures
3Newton-Wellesley HospitalNewton, MA9−0.2052No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
4Milford Regional Medical CenterMilford, MA10−0.3243No cut$0Above the national median on 1 of 6 measures
5Emerson Hospital -W Concord, MA12−0.5169No cut$0Above the national median on 2 of 6 measures
6Boston Medical Center-BrightonBrighton, MA15−0.2950No cut$0Above the national median on 2 of 6 measures
7Brigham and Women Faulkner HospitalJamaica Plain, MA150.41491% cut$525KAbove the national median on 5 of 6 measures
8Mount Auburn HospitalCambridge, MA160.3468No cut$0Above the national median on 5 of 6 measures

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Paid & Penalized. Metrowest Medical Center, Framingham, MA: Hospital-Acquired Conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/220175/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.