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HospitalEl Campo Memorial Hospital Estimated FY2026 net: −$54K×

Hospital record · FY2026CCN 450694

1Hospital

El Campo Memorial Hospital

2Location

El Campo, TX (Texas’s hospitals on the map and in the table) 77437

Wharton County

3Type

Not a teaching hospital · 49 beds · Nonprofit · Rural

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

1.0462

As CMS reports it

6Payment reduction

1% cut
CMS’s value: Yes

7Estimated cut

$43K estimate
Likely $30⁠–⁠48K; about $162 per traditional Medicare stay

Cut 1%

$43K

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

For fiscal year 2026, CMS reports a Total HAC Score of 1.0462 for El Campo Memorial Hospital and a payment reduction decision of Yes.

That is 1% of about $4.3M, this site’s estimate of what traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays in a year: about $162 per traditional Medicare stay.

Likely range $30–48K

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: 1.0462 This hospital 1.0462 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: 1.0462 This hospital 1.0462

Higher than 94% of the other 2,928 scores CMS published (higher is worse).

Its record, fiscal years 2015 to 2026 Cut in 7 of 11 years

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

Where the score came from

CMS scored this hospital on 2 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 CDI down to the national median (0.346) would lower the score the most: by 1.0939, to −0.0477. That change alone would put the score under CMS’s line. Try it in the what-if

Figure 1. Of its 2 measures with a value, this hospital is above the national median on 2; CDI 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 63% 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 value0.9923

    Z-score0.0271

    Part of score+0.0136

  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.

    added the most

    Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections

    Worse than 94% 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 value0.911

    Z-score2.0653

    Part of score+1.0327

  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 900.99230.96230.0271+0.0136Worse than 63% of the other 2,808 hospitals
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
CDI0.9110.3462.0653+1.0327Worse than 94% 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 2; a bar right of zero raised the score and one left of zero lowered it.

(0.0271PSI 90+2.0653CDI)÷2measures=1.0462Total HAC Score

This hospital’s score is 0.6670 above 0.3792, the highest score CMS marked No. (This site recomputes.)

Figure 2. The parts add up to 1.0462, above CMS’s line.
1% cut PSI 90: z‑score 0.0271 divided by 2 = +0.0136PSI 90+0.0136 CDI: z‑score 2.0653 divided by 2 = +1.0327CDI+1.0327 Total HAC Score: 1.0462Score1.0462 CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line 0.00.20.40.60.81.01.2 1% cut PSI 90: z‑score 0.0271 divided by 2 = +0.0136PSI 90+0.0136 CDI: z‑score 2.0653 divided by 2 = +1.0327CDI+1.0327 Total HAC Score: 1.0462Score1.0462 CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line 0.00.20.40.60.81.01.2

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 900.0271+0.01360.0136
CDI2.0653+1.03271.0463
Total HAC Score1.0462
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, 0.6670 over the highest score CMS didn’t cut, costs it about $43K 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 $43K at any score from 0.3799 $0at any score up to 0.3792 $43K at any score from 0.3799 −1012 CMS’s highest score: 2.3133 This hospital: 1.0462 This hospital 1.0462 CMS’s line $0 at any score up to 0.3792 $43K at any score from 0.3799 $0at any score up to 0.3792 $43Kat 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: 1.0462 This hospital 1.0462

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−$42,531
This hospital1.0462−$42,531
CMS’s highest score2.3133−$42,531

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.

($4,264,384payment−$11,282readmissions+$0value-based)×1%the cut=$42,531HAC cut

$42,531HAC cut÷262traditional Medicare stays=$162per traditional Medicare stay

Figure 4. This site estimates the HAC cut at $43K: 1% of the hospital’s whole inpatient payment, taken last. The readmissions and value-based adjustments, on the base alone, came to −$11K and $0.

Estimated Medicare inpatient payments · FY2026 estimate

What traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays
DRG payments at the federal rates the base $2,400,403
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share) $17,859
Outliers: unusually costly stays $10,706
Low-volume adjustment $799,540
Capital: buildings and equipment $187,432
Uncompensated care $848,444
Total, before the three programs $4,264,384
The three programs: two on the base, the HAC cut last
Readmissions (HRRP) base × (0.9953 − 1) −$11,282
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) not in CMS’s value-based factors: no adjustment $0
After these two $4,253,102
HAC Reduction Program 1% of everything above; likely $30⁠–⁠48K −$42,531
Net of the three programs likely −$57K to −$37K −$53,813

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.

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)$2,400,403
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share)$17,859
Outliers: unusually costly stays$10,706
Low-volume adjustment$799,540
Capital: buildings and equipment$187,432
Uncompensated care$848,444
Total, before the three programs$4,264,384
Readmissions (HRRP) (base × (0.9953 − 1))−$11,282
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) (not in CMS’s value-based factors: no adjustment)$0
After these two$4,253,102
HAC Reduction Program (1% of everything above; likely $30–48K)−$42,531
Net of the three programs (likely −$57K to −$37K)−$53,813

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 Score1.0462same
Payment reduction decisionYessame
Payment cut1%same
Estimated HAC cut estimate$43Ksame

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 1.0462 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 $43K, 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 900.8011 or lower
CDI0.566 or lower

Each measure weighs 1 ÷ 2 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 0.9923 · median 0.9623 · floor 0.7760 · cap 1.3482 · each 0.1 = 0.3491

CMS 0.911 · median 0.346 · cap 0.944 · each 0.1 = 0.1936

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Figure 5. CDI added the most to this hospital’s Total HAC Score of 1.0462 among its measured results: +1.0327.
  • PSI 90 +0.0136
  • CDI +1.0327

A measure adds its z‑score divided by 2, 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 900.0271+0.0136same
CDI2.0653+1.0327same

Interactive what-if at https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/450694/

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 5 years in a row.

Figure 6. CMS cut this hospital in 7 of the 11 years it made a decision.
highest middle lowest z‑scoresequal weights no scores FY2015: score 5.0000, higher than 40% of scores; not cutFY2016: score 5.0000, higher than 38% of scores; not cutFY2017: score 9.2500, higher than 98% of scores; cutFY2018: score 1.6485, higher than 98% of scores; cutFY2019: score 1.7755, higher than 99% of scores; cutFY2020: score 1.2303, higher than 98% of scores; cutFY2021: score 0.9293, higher than 95% of scores; cutFY2022: score 0.0043, higher than 53% of scores; not cutFY2024: score −0.3573, higher than 27% of scores; not cutFY2025: score 0.9537, higher than 93% of scores; cutFY2026: score 1.0462, higher than 94% of scores; cut 161820222426 highest middle lowest z‑scoresequal weights no scores FY2015: score 5.0000, higher than 40% of scores; not cutFY2016: score 5.0000, higher than 38% of scores; not cutFY2017: score 9.2500, higher than 98% of scores; cutFY2018: score 1.6485, higher than 98% of scores; cutFY2019: score 1.7755, higher than 99% of scores; cutFY2020: score 1.2303, higher than 98% of scores; cutFY2021: score 0.9293, higher than 95% of scores; cutFY2022: score 0.0043, higher than 53% of scores; not cutFY2024: score −0.3573, higher than 27% of scores; not cutFY2025: score 0.9537, higher than 93% of scores; cutFY2026: score 1.0462, higher than 94% 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
FY20155.000040.4%not cut
FY20165.000038.0%not cut
FY20179.250098.3%cut
FY20181.648598.0%cut
FY20191.775599.0%cut
FY20201.230398.0%cut
FY20210.929395.0%cut
FY20220.004353.0%not cut
FY2023no decision
FY2024−0.357327.8%not cut
FY20250.953793.2%cut
FY20261.046294.4%cut

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 Texas, its score is higher than 95% of the other 254 scored there.

Figure 7. Its score is above the middle in all 7 groups it belongs to; the share cut runs from 13% (Texas) to 32% (Rural).
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 Texas: CMS cut 32 of 255 (13%); middle score −0.2368Texas 255 hospitals13% 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 Rural: CMS cut 196 of 619 (32%); middle score 0.0229Rural 619 hospitals32% cut CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line −1012 This hospital: 1.0462 This hospital 1.0462 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 Texas: CMS cut 32 of 255 (13%); middle score −0.2368Texas255 hospitals13% 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 Rural: CMS cut 196 of 619 (32%); middle score 0.0229Rural619 hospitals32% 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: 1.0462 This hospital 1.0462

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%−0.045394%
South region1,17426322%−0.105693%
Texas2553213%−0.236895%
Not teaching1,56338925%−0.105392%
Fewer than 100 beds80522528%−0.115488%
Nonprofit1,83047826%−0.013495%
Rural61919632%0.022989%
This hospital1.0462
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 8. CMS cut 1 of the 8 nearest hospitals; the closest is 34 miles away.
5 mi10 mi25 mi8. St Luke's Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar Land: score −0.0044, not cut, 48 miles87. Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital, Katy: score −0.7103, not cut, 46 miles76. Sugar Land Surgical Hospital LLP, Sugar Land: score 0.4316, cut, 46 miles65. Houston Methodist Sugarland Hospital, Sugar Land: score −0.4615, not cut, 46 miles54. Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar Land: score 0.1637, not cut, 43 miles43. Oakbend Medical Center, Richmond: score −0.0932, not cut, 40 miles32. Columbus Community Hospital, Columbus: score −1.0045, not cut, 36 miles21. Matagorda Regional Medical Center, Bay City: score −0.9058, not cut, 34 miles1This hospital: El Campo Memorial Hospital

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

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HospitalMilesScoreDecision
Matagorda Regional Medical Center, Bay City, TX34−0.9058not cut
Columbus Community Hospital, Columbus, TX36−1.0045not cut
Oakbend Medical Center, Richmond, TX40−0.0932not cut
Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar Land, TX430.1637not cut
Houston Methodist Sugarland Hospital, Sugar Land, TX46−0.4615not cut
Sugar Land Surgical Hospital LLP, Sugar Land, TX460.4316cut
Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital, Katy, TX46−0.7103not cut
St Luke's Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar Land, TX48−0.0044not cut

#HospitalMilesScoreDecisionEst. cut ($, modeled)Measures
1Matagorda Regional Medical CenterBay City, TX34−0.9058No cut$0Above the national median on 0 of 2 measures
2Columbus Community HospitalColumbus, TX36−1.0045No cut$0Above the national median on 1 of 3 measures
3Oakbend Medical CenterRichmond, TX40−0.0932No cut$0Above the national median on 2 of 5 measures
4Memorial Hermann Sugar Land HospitalSugar Land, TX430.1637No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
5Houston Methodist Sugarland HospitalSugar Land, TX46−0.4615No cut$0Above the national median on 2 of 6 measures
6Sugar Land Surgical Hospital LLPSugar Land, TX460.43161% cut$4KAbove the national median on 1 of 1 measures
7Memorial Hermann Katy HospitalKaty, TX46−0.7103No cut$0Above the national median on 1 of 6 measures
8St Luke's Sugar Land HospitalSugar Land, TX48−0.0044No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures

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Paid & Penalized. El Campo Memorial Hospital, El Campo, TX: Hospital-Acquired Conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/450694/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.