Hospital record · FY2026CCN 330218

1Hospital

Oswego Hospital

2Location

Oswego, NY (New York’s hospitals on the map and in the table) 13069

Oswego County

3Type

Not a teaching hospital · 132 beds · Nonprofit · Urban · Sole community hospital

4Care Compare stars

3 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

0.3700

As CMS reports it

6Payment reduction

No cut

CMS’s value: No

7Estimated cut

A cut would have been $117K, likely $91⁠–⁠143K estimate

No cut

from this program

For fiscal year 2026, CMS reports a Total HAC Score of 0.3700 for Oswego Hospital and a payment reduction decision of No.

A cut would have taken about $117K estimate 1% of about $11.7M, this site’s estimate of what traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays in a year. Its score was 0.0099 under 0.3799, the lowest score CMS cut.

Likely range $91–143K

Its score was at or below CMS’s line, so this program did not cut its Medicare payments 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 74% of the other 2,928 scores CMS published (higher is worse).

Its record, fiscal years 2015 to 2026 Never cut in 11 years

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

Where the score came from

CMS scored this hospital on 5 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 0.3960, to −0.0260. Try it in the what-if

Figure 1. Of its 5 measures with a value, this hospital is above the national median on 3; 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 92% 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 value1.2459

Z-score1.7971

Part of score+0.3594
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
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
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 77% of the other 2,354 hospitals

CMS value0.800

Z-score0.6098

Part of score+0.1220
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 62% of the other 2,269 hospitals

CMS value0.619

Z-score−0.3961

Part of score−0.0792
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
Better than 73% 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 value0.191

Z-score−0.7226

Part of score−0.1445
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 75% of the other 2,067 hospitals

CMS value0.966

Z-score0.5616

Part of score+0.1123

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	1.2459	0.9623	1.7971	+0.3594	Worse than 92% of the other 2,808 hospitals
CLABSI	no value published	0.559	no value published	no value published	Not scored on this measure
CAUTI	0.800	0.489	0.6098	+0.1220	Worse than 77% of the other 2,354 hospitals
SSI	0.619	0.795	−0.3961	−0.0792	Better than 62% of the other 2,269 hospitals
CDI	0.191	0.346	−0.7226	−0.1445	Better than 73% of the other 2,766 hospitals
MRSA	0.966	0.641	0.5616	+0.1123	Worse than 75% 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 5; a bar right of zero raised the score and one left of zero lowered it.

(1.7971PSI 90+0.6098CAUTI−0.3961SSI−0.7226CDI+0.5616MRSA)÷5measures=0.3700Total HAC Score

This hospital’s score is 0.0099 below 0.3799, the lowest score CMS marked Yes. (This site recomputes.)

Figure 2. The parts add up to 0.3700, below 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	1.7971	+0.3594	0.3594
CAUTI	0.6098	+0.1220	0.4814
SSI	−0.3961	−0.0792	0.4022
CDI	−0.7226	−0.1445	0.2577
MRSA	0.5616	+0.1123	0.3700
Total HAC Score			0.3700
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, 0.0099 under the lowest score CMS cut, costs it nothing; 0.0099 higher, the cut would have been about $117K by this site’s estimate, the same as at CMS’s highest score, 2.3133.

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	−$117,079
This hospital	0.3700	$0
CMS’s highest score	2.3133	−$117,079

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.

($11,844,723payment−$79,829readmissions−$56,945value-based)×1%the cut=$117,079at stake

$117,079at stake÷809traditional Medicare stays=$145per traditional Medicare stay

Figure 4. No HAC cut this year; 1% of the hospital’s whole inpatient payment would have been about $117K by this site’s estimate. The readmissions and value-based adjustments, on the base alone, came to −$80K and −$57K.

Estimated Medicare inpatient payments · FY2026 estimate

What traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays
DRG payments at the federal rates the base	$9,618,011
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share)	$381,258
Outliers: unusually costly stays	$15,389
Low-volume adjustment	$648,856
Capital: buildings and equipment	$795,553
Uncompensated care	$385,656
Total, before the three programs	$11,844,723
The three programs: two on the base, the HAC cut last
Readmissions (HRRP) base × (0.9917 − 1)	−$79,829
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) base × (0.9941 − 1)	−$56,945
After these two	$11,707,949
HAC Reduction Program no cut; 1% would have been $117,079	$0
Net of the three programs likely −$159K to −$109K	−$136,774

Not paid to this hospital: a Medicare-dependent hospital add-on, teaching payments, and a sole community hospital rate difference.

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)	$9,618,011
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share)	$381,258
Outliers: unusually costly stays	$15,389
Low-volume adjustment	$648,856
Capital: buildings and equipment	$795,553
Uncompensated care	$385,656
Total, before the three programs	$11,844,723
Readmissions (HRRP) (base × (0.9917 − 1))	−$79,829
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) (base × (0.9941 − 1))	−$56,945
After these two	$11,707,949
HAC Reduction Program (no cut; 1% would have been $117,079)	$0
Net of the three programs (likely −$159K to −$109K)	−$136,774

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	0.3700	same
Payment reduction decision	No	same
Payment cut	0%	same
Estimated HAC cut estimate	$0	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 0.3700 and a payment reduction decision of No.

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.

How much cushion?

Staying at or under CMS’s line keeps about $117K out of this program’s cut, this site estimates: a score a hair over would cost all of it.

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

Measure	Highest value that keeps No
PSI 90	up to 1.2524
CAUTI	up to 0.819
SSI	up to 0.645
CDI	up to 0.202
MRSA	up to 0.987

Each measure weighs 1 ÷ 5 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 1.2459 · median 0.9623 · floor 0.7760 · cap 1.3482 · each 0.1 = 0.1396

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections CAUTI

CAUTI value

CMS 0.800 · median 0.489 · cap 1.537 · each 0.1 = 0.0482

Surgical site infections after colon surgery or abdominal hysterectomy SSI

SSI value

CMS 0.619 · median 0.795 · cap 2.118 · each 0.1 = 0.0343

Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections CDI

CDI value

CMS 0.191 · median 0.346 · cap 0.944 · each 0.1 = 0.0774

MRSA bloodstream infections MRSA

MRSA value

CMS 0.966 · median 0.641 · cap 1.762 · each 0.1 = 0.0418

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Figure 5. PSI 90 added the most to this hospital’s Total HAC Score of 0.3700 among its measured results: +0.3594.

PSI 90 +0.3594
CAUTI +0.1220
SSI −0.0792
CDI −0.1445
MRSA +0.1123

A measure adds its z‑score divided by 5, 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	1.7971	+0.3594	same
CAUTI	0.6098	+0.1220	same
SSI	−0.3961	−0.0792	same
CDI	−0.7226	−0.1445	same
MRSA	0.5616	+0.1123	same

Interactive what-if at https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/330218/

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 made a decision on this hospital in 11 years and never cut it.

● 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	1.6750	3.0%	not cut
FY2016	3.0000	11.2%	not cut
FY2017	2.9800	14.7%	not cut
FY2018	−0.5897	17.4%	not cut
FY2019	0.0649	57.7%	not cut
FY2020	0.3027	72.9%	not cut
FY2021	0.0351	55.4%	not cut
FY2022	−0.0761	46.4%	not cut
FY2023			no decision
FY2024	−0.2950	32.2%	not cut
FY2025	0.0597	56.8%	not cut
FY2026	0.3700	74.4%	not 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. 1 of its 2 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	CAUTI	C. diff
2017	0.696	0.818
2018	1.669	0.670
2019	0.000	0.363
2021	0.593	0.776
2022	0.537	0.159
2023	0.784	0.214
2024	0.816	0.172

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 New York, its score is higher than 64% of the other 125 scored there.

In Syracuse, NY area, its score is higher than 75% of the other 4 scored there.

Figure 8. Its score is above the middle in all 8 groups it belongs to; the share cut runs from 20% (Syracuse, NY area) to 36% (New York).

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	74%
Northeast region	436	124	28%	0.0478	71%
New York	126	45	36%	0.1614	64%
Syracuse, NY area	5	1	20%	0.0646	75%
Not teaching	1,563	389	25%	−0.1053	74%
100 to 299 beds	1,193	275	23%	−0.0732	76%
Nonprofit	1,830	478	26%	−0.0134	73%
Urban	2,241	510	23%	−0.0574	76%
This hospital				0.3700
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 3 of the 8 nearest hospitals; the closest is 33 miles away.

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

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Hospital	Miles	Score	Decision
St Joseph's Hospital Health Center, Syracuse, NY	33	0.0377	not cut
University Hospital S U N Y Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY	34	0.9548	cut
Crouse Hospital, Syracuse, NY	34	0.0646	not cut
Auburn Community Hospital, Auburn, NY	36	0.1973	not cut
Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, Newark, NY	40	0.2112	not cut
Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic, Clifton Springs, NY	46	0.8676	cut
Samaritan Medical Center, Watertown, NY	46	0.0497	not cut
Geneva General Hospital, Geneva, NY	47	0.7325	cut

#	Hospital	Miles	Score	Decision	Est. cut ($, modeled)	Measures
1	St Joseph's Hospital Health CenterSyracuse, NY	33	0.0377	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
2	University Hospital S U N Y Health Science CenterSyracuse, NY	34	0.9548	1% cut	$1.7M	Above the national median on 6 of 6 measures
3	Crouse HospitalSyracuse, NY	34	0.0646	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
4	Auburn Community HospitalAuburn, NY	36	0.1973	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 4 of 6 measures
5	Newark-Wayne Community HospitalNewark, NY	40	0.2112	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
6	Clifton Springs Hospital and ClinicClifton Springs, NY	46	0.8676	1% cut	$54K	Above the national median on 4 of 5 measures
7	Samaritan Medical CenterWatertown, NY	46	0.0497	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
8	Geneva General HospitalGeneva, NY	47	0.7325	1% cut	$115K	Above the national median on 4 of 6 measures

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CMS’s footnotes on this page

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

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Paid & Penalized. Oswego Hospital, Oswego, NY: Hospital-Acquired Conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/330218/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.