Hospital record · FY2026CCN 520210

1Hospital

Marshfield Medical Center - Eau Claire

2Location

Eau Claire, WI (Wisconsin’s hospitals on the map and in the table) 54701

Eau Claire County

3Type

Not a teaching hospital · 44 beds · Nonprofit · Urban

4Care Compare stars

3 of 5 stars

Overall rating, CMS Care Compare data of July 22, 2026
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5Total HAC Score

0.0111

As CMS reports it

6Payment reduction

No cut

CMS’s value: No

7Estimated cut

A cut would have been $92K, likely $68⁠–⁠115K estimate

No cut

from this program

For fiscal year 2026, CMS reports a Total HAC Score of 0.0111 for Marshfield Medical Center - Eau Claire and a payment reduction decision of No.

A cut would have taken about $92K estimate 1% of about $9.2M, this site’s estimate of what traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays in a year. Its score was 0.3688 under 0.3799, the lowest score CMS cut.

Likely range $68–115K

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 53% of the other 2,928 scores CMS published (higher is worse).

Its record, fiscal years 2015 to 2026 Cut in 2 of 6 years

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

In FY2020, CMS reports a payment reduction decision for this hospital but no Total HAC Score.

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 CDI down to the national median (0.346) would lower the score the most: by 0.4631, to −0.4520. Try it in the what-if

Figure 1. Of its 5 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

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 77% 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 value1.0712

Z-score0.5778

Part of score+0.1156
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 63% of the other 2,181 hospitals

CMS value0.432

Z-score−0.4043

Part of score−0.0809
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
Better than 85% of the other 2,354 hospitals

CMS value0.000

Z-score−1.3186

Part of score−0.2637
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 83% of the other 2,269 hospitals

CMS value0.271

Z-score−0.9923

Part of score−0.1985
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 98% 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 value1.295

Z-score2.1931

Part of score+0.4386
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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Measure	CMS value	National median	Z-score	Part of the score	Among hospitals
PSI 90	1.0712	0.9623	0.5778	+0.1156	Worse than 77% of the other 2,808 hospitals
CLABSI	0.432	0.559	−0.4043	−0.0809	Better than 63% of the other 2,181 hospitals
CAUTI	0.000	0.489	−1.3186	−0.2637	Better than 85% of the other 2,354 hospitals
SSI	0.271	0.795	−0.9923	−0.1985	Better than 83% of the other 2,269 hospitals
CDI	1.295	0.346	2.1931	+0.4386	Worse than 98% of the other 2,766 hospitals
MRSA	no value published	0.641	no value published	no value published	Not 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 5; a bar right of zero raised the score and one left of zero lowered it.

(0.5778PSI 90−0.4043CLABSI−1.3186CAUTI−0.9923SSI+2.1931CDI)÷5measures=0.0111Total HAC Score

This hospital’s score is 0.3688 below 0.3799, the lowest score CMS marked Yes. (This site recomputes.)

Figure 2. The parts add up to 0.0111, 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	0.5778	+0.1156	0.1156
CLABSI	−0.4043	−0.0809	0.0347
CAUTI	−1.3186	−0.2637	−0.2290
SSI	−0.9923	−0.1985	−0.4275
CDI	2.1931	+0.4386	0.0111
Total HAC Score			0.0111
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, 0.3688 under the lowest score CMS cut, costs it nothing; 0.3688 higher, the cut would have been about $92K 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	−$92,135
This hospital	0.0111	$0
CMS’s highest score	2.3133	−$92,135

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.

($9,215,689payment+$0readmissions−$2,233value-based)×1%the cut=$92,135at stake

$92,135at stake÷598traditional Medicare stays=$154per traditional Medicare stay

Figure 4. No HAC cut this year; 1% of the hospital’s whole inpatient payment would have been about $92K by this site’s estimate. The readmissions and value-based adjustments, on the base alone, came to $0 and −$2K.

Estimated Medicare inpatient payments · FY2026 estimate

What traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays
DRG payments at the federal rates the base	$6,446,512
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share)	$193,395
Outliers: unusually costly stays	$1,177,520
Capital: buildings and equipment	$819,777
Uncompensated care	$578,485
Total, before the three programs	$9,215,689
The three programs: two on the base, the HAC cut last
Readmissions (HRRP) base × (1.0000 − 1)	$0
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) base × (0.9997 − 1)	−$2,233
After these two	$9,213,456
HAC Reduction Program no cut; 1% would have been $92,135	$0
Net of the three programs likely −$3K to −$2K	−$2,233

Not paid to this hospital: a Medicare-dependent hospital add-on, teaching payments, 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.

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Line	Amount (whole dollars)
DRG payments at the federal rates (the base)	$6,446,512
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share)	$193,395
Outliers: unusually costly stays	$1,177,520
Capital: buildings and equipment	$819,777
Uncompensated care	$578,485
Total, before the three programs	$9,215,689
Readmissions (HRRP) (base × (1.0000 − 1))	$0
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) (base × (0.9997 − 1))	−$2,233
After these two	$9,213,456
HAC Reduction Program (no cut; 1% would have been $92,135)	$0
Net of the three programs (likely −$3K to −$2K)	−$2,233

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	0.0111	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 0.0111 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 $92K 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 1.3347
CLABSI	up to 1.225
CAUTI	up to 0.763
SSI	up to 1.345
CDI	any value: every CDI value past the cap (0.944) scores the same

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 1.0712 · median 0.9623 · floor 0.7760 · cap 1.3482 · each 0.1 = 0.1396

Central line–associated bloodstream infections CLABSI

CLABSI value

CMS 0.432 · median 0.559 · cap 1.572 · each 0.1 = 0.0464

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections CAUTI

CAUTI value

CMS 0.000 · median 0.489 · cap 1.537 · each 0.1 = 0.0482

Surgical site infections after colon surgery or abdominal hysterectomy SSI

SSI value

CMS 0.271 · median 0.795 · cap 2.118 · each 0.1 = 0.0343

Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections CDI

CDI value

CMS 1.295 · median 0.346 · cap 0.944 · each 0.1 = 0.0774

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Figure 5. CDI added the most to this hospital’s Total HAC Score of 0.0111 among its measured results: +0.4386.

PSI 90 +0.1156
CLABSI −0.0809
CAUTI −0.2637
SSI −0.1985
CDI +0.4386

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	0.5778	+0.1156	same
CLABSI	−0.4043	−0.0809	same
CAUTI	−1.3186	−0.2637	same
SSI	−0.9923	−0.1985	same
CDI	2.1931	+0.4386	same

Interactive what-if at https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/520210/

Among hospitals with a Yes or No payment decision, CMS cut those with a published Total HAC Score of 0.3799 or higher and none at 0.3792 or lower. Maryland’s hospitals are scored but not subject to the reduction.

Held fixed: every other hospital’s results, CMS’s line, and each measure’s mean, spread, floor and cap as this site fits them to CMS’s published values.

Year by year

Where this hospital’s score fell among every hospital’s, each year CMS published one. A score near the top is among the highest; the shaded band is where CMS cut. Places compare across years even where CMS changed how it builds the score.

Its longest run: cut 2 years in a row.

Figure 6. CMS cut this hospital in 2 of the 6 years it made a decision.

● 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			no decision
FY2016			no decision
FY2017			no decision
FY2018			no decision
FY2019			no decision
FY2020	N/A		not cut, with no score published
FY2021	−0.2900	31.6%	not cut
FY2022	−0.0515	48.6%	not cut
FY2023			no decision
FY2024	0.6256	84.0%	cut
FY2025	0.4938	81.0%	cut
FY2026	0.0111	53.4%	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. 2 of its 4 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	CLABSI	CAUTI	SSI, colon	C. diff
2019	0.000			1.584
2021			1.887	1.095
2022	2.496	0.744	0.000	1.333
2023	0.715	0.000	0.000	0.622
2024			0.600	1.820

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 Wisconsin, its score is higher than 44% of the other 61 scored there.

Figure 8. Its score is above the middle in 6 of the 7 groups it belongs to; the share cut runs from 23% (Urban) to 28% (Fewer than 100 beds).

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	53%
Midwest region	683	174	25%	−0.0268	52%
Wisconsin	62	16	26%	0.0996	44%
Not teaching	1,563	389	25%	−0.1053	57%
Fewer than 100 beds	805	225	28%	−0.1154	56%
Nonprofit	1,830	478	26%	−0.0134	51%
Urban	2,241	510	23%	−0.0574	54%
This hospital				0.0111
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 1 of the 8 nearest hospitals; the closest is 3 miles away.

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

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Hospital	Miles	Score	Decision
Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire Hospital, Eau Claire, WI	3	−0.3779	not cut
Oakleaf Surgical Hospital, Altoona, WI	4	0.2008	not cut
Marshfield Medical Center - Rice Lake, Rice Lake, WI	51	0.3725	not cut
Winona Health Services, Winona, MN	53	0.3649	not cut
Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing, Red Wing, MN	54	−0.3248	not cut
Lakeview Memorial Hospital, Stillwater, MN	66	−0.4454	not cut
Marshfield Medical Center, Marshfield, WI	66	0.7373	cut
Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Medical Center Inc, La Crosse, WI	70	−0.7078	not cut

#	Hospital	Miles	Score	Decision	Est. cut ($, modeled)	Measures
1	Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire HospitalEau Claire, WI	3	−0.3779	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
2	Oakleaf Surgical HospitalAltoona, WI	4	0.2008	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 1 of 2 measures
3	Marshfield Medical Center - Rice LakeRice Lake, WI	51	0.3725	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 3 of 3 measures
4	Winona Health ServicesWinona, MN	53	0.3649	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 2 of 3 measures
5	Mayo Clinic Health System in Red WingRed Wing, MN	54	−0.3248	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 2 of 3 measures
6	Lakeview Memorial HospitalStillwater, MN	66	−0.4454	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 1 of 5 measures
7	Marshfield Medical CenterMarshfield, WI	66	0.7373	1% cut	$611K	Above the national median on 4 of 6 measures
8	Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Medical Center IncLa Crosse, WI	70	−0.7078	No cut	$0	Above the national median on 1 of 6 measures

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

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Paid & Penalized. Marshfield Medical Center - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI: Hospital-Acquired Conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/520210/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.