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HospitalNovant Health Ballantyne Medical Center Estimated FY2026 net: +$73K×

Hospital record · FY2026CCN 340195

1Hospital

Novant Health Ballantyne Medical Center

2Location

Charlotte, NC (North Carolina’s hospitals on the map and in the table) 28277

Mecklenburg County

3Type

Not a teaching hospital · 36 beds · Nonprofit · Urban

4Care Compare stars

Not Available

Overall rating, CMS Care Compare data of July 22, 2026
CMS footnote 16: There are too few measures or measure groups reported to calculate a star rating or measure group score.
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5Total HAC Score

−0.3199

As CMS reports it

6Payment reduction

No cut
CMS’s value: No

7Estimated cut

$0
A cut would have been $50K, likely $36⁠–⁠62K estimate

No cut

$0

from this program

For fiscal year 2026, CMS reports a Total HAC Score of −0.3199 for Novant Health Ballantyne Medical Center and a payment reduction decision of No.

A cut would have taken about $50K estimate 1% of about $5.0M, this site’s estimate of what traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays in a year. Its score was 0.6998 under 0.3799, the lowest score CMS cut.

Likely range $36–62K

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.

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: −0.3199 This hospital −0.3199 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: −0.3199 This hospital −0.3199

Higher than 31% of the other 2,928 scores CMS published (higher is worse).

Its record, fiscal years 2015 to 2026 Never cut in 2 years

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  9. 23—
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  11. 25No
  12. 26No

In FY2025, CMS reports a payment reduction decision for this hospital but no Total HAC Score.

CMS scored this hospital on a single measure, so that measure alone set its Total HAC Score.

Where the score came from

CMS scored this hospital on 1 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.

None of the measures CMS scored it on is above the national median, so no single measure at the median would lower its score.

Figure 1. This hospital has a published value for one measure, CDI, and it is at or below the national median.
  • 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

    Not scored on this measure

    CMS footnote 5: Results are not available for this reporting period.

    CMS valueno value published

    Z-scoreno value published

    Part of scoreno value published

  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

    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

  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

    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

  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

    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

  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

    Better than 58% 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 value0.295

    Z-score−0.3199

    Part of score−0.3199

  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

    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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MeasureCMS valueNational medianZ-scorePart of the scoreAmong hospitals
PSI 90no value published0.9623no value publishedno value publishedNot scored on this measure
CLABSIno value published0.559no value publishedno value publishedNot scored on this measure
CAUTIno value published0.489no value publishedno value publishedNot scored on this measure
SSIno value published0.795no value publishedno value publishedNot scored on this measure
CDI0.2950.346−0.3199−0.3199Better than 58% of the other 2,766 hospitals
MRSAno value published0.641no value publishedno value publishedNot 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 1; a bar right of zero raised the score and one left of zero lowered it.

(−0.3199CDI)÷1measures=−0.3199Total HAC Score

Added from the rounded z‑scores CMS published, the parts make −0.3199; CMS reports −0.3199. The small difference is rounding.

This hospital’s score is 0.6998 below 0.3799, the lowest score CMS marked Yes. (This site recomputes.)

Figure 2. The parts add up to −0.3199, below CMS’s line.
1% cut CDI: z‑score −0.3199 divided by 1 = −0.3199CDI−0.3199 Total HAC Score: −0.3199Score−0.3199 CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line −0.4−0.20.00.20.4 1% cut CDI: z‑score −0.3199 divided by 1 = −0.3199CDI−0.3199 Total HAC Score: −0.3199Score−0.3199 CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line −0.4−0.20.00.20.4

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
CDI−0.3199−0.3199−0.3199
Total HAC Score−0.3199
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; 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, 0.6998 under the lowest score CMS cut, costs it nothing; 0.6998 higher, the cut would have been about $50K by this site’s estimate, the same as at CMS’s highest score, 2.3133.
CMS’s line $0 at any score up to 0.3792 $50K at any score from 0.3799 $0at any score up to 0.3792 $50K at any score from 0.3799 −1012 CMS’s highest score: 2.3133 CMS’s highest score 2.3133 This hospital: −0.3199 This hospital −0.3199 CMS’s line $0 at any score up to 0.3792 $50K at any score from 0.3799 $0at any score up to 0.3792 $50Kat 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: −0.3199 This hospital −0.3199

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−$49,709
This hospital−0.3199$0
CMS’s highest score2.3133−$49,709

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.

($4,898,045payment+$0readmissions+$72,828value-based)×1%the cut=$49,709at stake

$49,709at stake÷546traditional Medicare stays=$91per traditional Medicare stay

Figure 4. No HAC cut this year; 1% of the hospital’s whole inpatient payment would have been about $50K by this site’s estimate. The readmissions and value-based adjustments, on the base alone, came to $0 and +$73K.

Estimated Medicare inpatient payments · FY2026 estimate

What traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays
DRG payments at the federal rates the base $4,526,567
Outliers: unusually costly stays $21,003
Capital: buildings and equipment $350,475
Total, before the three programs $4,898,045
The three programs: two on the base, the HAC cut last
Readmissions (HRRP) base × (1.0000 − 1) $0
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) base × (1.0161 − 1) +$72,828
After these two $4,970,873
HAC Reduction Program no cut; 1% would have been $49,709 $0
Net of the three programs likely $53⁠–⁠93K +$72,828

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

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)$4,526,567
Outliers: unusually costly stays$21,003
Capital: buildings and equipment$350,475
Total, before the three programs$4,898,045
Readmissions (HRRP) (base × (1.0000 − 1))$0
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) (base × (1.0161 − 1))+$72,828
After these two$4,970,873
HAC Reduction Program (no cut; 1% would have been $49,709)$0
Net of the three programs (likely $53–93K)+$72,828

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.

The what-if needs JavaScript. Without it, the values below stay as they are.

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CMS reportsHypothetical
Total HAC Score−0.3199same
Payment reduction decisionNosame
Payment cut0%same
Estimated HAC cut estimate$0same

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 −0.3199 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 $50K 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.

MeasureHighest value that keeps No
CDIup to 0.475

Each measure weighs 1 ÷ 1 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 0.295 · median 0.346 · cap 0.944 · each 0.1 = 0.3872

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Figure 5. Each bar is one measure’s part of this hospital’s Total HAC Score of −0.3199: its z‑score divided by 1, the number of measures scored.
  • CDI −0.3199

A measure adds its z‑score divided by 1, 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
CDI−0.3199−0.3199same

Interactive what-if at https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/340195/

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.

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 North Carolina, its score is higher than 20% of the other 78 scored there.

In Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area, its score is higher than 27% of the other 18 scored there.

Figure 6. Its score is below the middle in all 8 groups it belongs to; the share cut runs from 5% (Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area) to 28% (Fewer than 100 beds).
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 North Carolina: CMS cut 20 of 79 (25%); middle score 0.0502North Carolina 79 hospitals25% cut Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area: CMS cut 1 of 19 (5%); middle score −0.1602Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area19 hospitals5% cut Not teaching: CMS cut 389 of 1,563 (25%); middle score −0.1053Not teaching 1,563 hospitals25% cut Fewer than 100 beds: CMS cut 225 of 805 (28%); middle score −0.1154Fewer than 100 beds 805 hospitals28% 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: −0.3199 This hospital −0.3199 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 North Carolina: CMS cut 20 of 79 (25%); middle score 0.0502North Carolina79 hospitals25% cut Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area: CMS cut 1 of 19 (5%); middle score −0.1602Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area19 hospitals5% cut Not teaching: CMS cut 389 of 1,563 (25%); middle score −0.1053Not teaching1,563 hospitals25% cut Fewer than 100 beds: CMS cut 225 of 805 (28%); middle score −0.1154Fewer than 100 beds805 hospitals28% 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: −0.3199 This hospital −0.3199

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%−0.045331%
South region1,17426322%−0.105634%
North Carolina792025%0.050220%
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area1915%−0.160227%
Not teaching1,56338925%−0.105336%
Fewer than 100 beds80522528%−0.115438%
Nonprofit1,83047826%−0.013427%
Urban2,24151023%−0.057430%
This hospital−0.3199
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 7. CMS cut none of the 8 nearest hospitals; the closest is 4 miles away.
5 mi10 mi8. Atrium Health University City, Charlotte: score 0.1904, not cut, 19 miles87. Atrium Health Union, Monroe: score 0.0437, not cut, 19 miles76. Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center, Charlotte: score −0.5715, not cut, 17 miles65. Piedmont Medical Center, Rock Hill: score −0.1602, not cut, 13 miles54. Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center, Charlotte: score −0.2387, not cut, 12 miles43. Carolinas Medical Center/Behav Health, Charlotte: score 0.0606, not cut, 11 miles32. Novant Health Matthews Medical Center, Matthews: score 0.0596, not cut, 9 miles21. Atrium Health Pineville, Charlotte: score −0.0724, not cut, 4 miles1This hospital: Novant Health Ballantyne Medical Center

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

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HospitalMilesScoreDecision
Atrium Health Pineville, Charlotte, NC4−0.0724not cut
Novant Health Matthews Medical Center, Matthews, NC90.0596not cut
Carolinas Medical Center/Behav Health, Charlotte, NC110.0606not cut
Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center, Charlotte, NC12−0.2387not cut
Piedmont Medical Center, Rock Hill, SC13−0.1602not cut
Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center, Charlotte, NC17−0.5715not cut
Atrium Health Union, Monroe, NC190.0437not cut
Atrium Health University City, Charlotte, NC190.1904not cut

#HospitalMilesScoreDecisionEst. cut ($, modeled)Measures
1Atrium Health PinevilleCharlotte, NC4−0.0724No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
2Novant Health Matthews Medical CenterMatthews, NC90.0596No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
3Carolinas Medical Center/Behav HealthCharlotte, NC110.0606No cut$0Above the national median on 4 of 6 measures
4Novant Health Presbyterian Medical CenterCharlotte, NC12−0.2387No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
5Piedmont Medical CenterRock Hill, SC13−0.1602No cut$0Above the national median on 2 of 6 measures
6Novant Health Mint Hill Medical CenterCharlotte, NC17−0.5715No cut$0Above the national median on 0 of 3 measures
7Atrium Health UnionMonroe, NC190.0437No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
8Atrium Health University CityCharlotte, NC190.1904No cut$0Above the national median on 4 of 6 measures

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

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Paid & Penalized. Novant Health Ballantyne Medical Center, Charlotte, NC: Hospital-Acquired Conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/340195/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.