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Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

CMS cut 11 of the 29 hospitals in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 37.9%, against 24.9% nationally.

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 29 with a payment decision

2Share cut

37.9%

+13.1 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

10th of 59

Share cut, highest first, among metro areas with at least 10 hospitals with a decision

4Median score

0.1550

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 29 scored (86%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$7.6M estimate

2.5% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $6.1–8.4M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$113

The nation: $47

38% cut

Every hospital in the nation with a payment decision, lowest score to highest, each as tall as its score (above the rule, worse than average); the solid hairlines are Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA’s, red where CMS cut.

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Each dot is a hospital in CMS’s file: red, cut; ringed, not cut; gray, no decision. Pick one to open its page.

Figure 1. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA: 11 cut of 29 with a payment decision.

Cut
Not cut
Not subject (Maryland) or no score

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

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Hospital	City	Total HAC Score	Payment reduction
Emory Decatur Hospital	Decatur	0.4235	Yes
Emory Hillandale Hospital	Lithonia	0.0473	No
Emory Johns Creek Hospital	Johns Creek	0.3325	No
Emory University Hospital	Atlanta	0.7113	Yes
Emory University Hospital Midtown	Atlanta	0.7132	Yes
Grady Memorial Hospital	Atlanta	0.4513	Yes
NGMC Barrow, LLC	Winder	1.0547	Yes
Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin	Dahlonega	−1.4622	No
Northside Hospital	Atlanta	1.0106	Yes
Northside Hospital Duluth	Duluth	0.9165	Yes
Northside Hospital Forsyth	Cumming	0.4465	Yes
Northside Hospital Gwinnett	Lawrenceville	0.2853	No
Piedmont Eastside Medical Center	Snellville	0.1603	No
Piedmont Fayette Hospital	Fayetteville	−0.4166	No
Piedmont Henry Hospital	Stockbridge	−0.2326	No
Piedmont Hospital, Inc	Atlanta	−0.3183	No
Piedmont Mountainside Hospital Inc	Jasper	−0.3292	No
Piedmont Newnan Hospital, Inc	Newnan	−0.3253	No
Piedmont Newton Hospital	Covington	−0.2734	No
Piedmont Rockdale Hospital	Conyers	0.1479	No
Piedmont Walton Hospital	Monroe	0.0379	No
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, Inc	Atlanta	0.0417	No
Southeastern Regional Medical Center, Inc	Newnan	0.1550	No
Southern Regional Medical Center	Riverdale	−0.1426	No
Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton	Carrollton	0.9387	Yes
Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica	Villa Rica	−0.5838	No
Wellstar Douglas Medical Center	Douglasville	0.4274	Yes
Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center	Roswell	0.4267	Yes
Wellstar Spalding Medical Center	Griffin	0.1281	No

Its scores against the nation’s

The columns are this place’s hospitals; the outline is every hospital in the nation. Both are shares of their own hospitals, so a small place and the nation compare.

Figure 2. 37.9% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.1550, and nationally −0.0453.

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

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Score from	to	Here	Nation
−1.6	−1.4	1	40
−1.4	−1.2	0	17
−1.2	−1.0	0	51
−1.0	−0.8	0	126
−0.8	−0.6	0	204
−0.6	−0.4	1	290
−0.4	−0.2	6	357
−0.2	0.0	1	407
0.0	0.2	7	343
0.2	0.4	2	333
0.4	0.6	5	237
0.6	0.8	2	173
0.8	1.0	2	116
1.0	1.2	2	91
1.2	1.4	0	30
1.4	1.6	0	21
1.6	1.8	0	10
1.8	2.0	0	3
2.0	2.2	0	13
2.2	2.4	0	24

Measure by measure

For each measure, the share of this place’s hospitals with a value worse than the national median. Half would be ordinary; a stem to the right of the line is a measure where more hospitals here did worse.

Figure 3. Worst against the nation on PSI 90 (75% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (32%).

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

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Measure	Hospitals with a value	Half
PSI 90	28	75%
CLABSI	26	73%
CAUTI	26	50%
SSI	27	74%
CDI	29	34%
MRSA	25	32%

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA’s in full ink: scores a hair apart, money all or nothing.

Figure 4. 4 of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates are Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA’s: 3 cut, about $881K by this site’s estimate, and 1 not cut, where a cut would have been about $282K.

3 more within 0.05 have no estimate, and Maryland’s 2 are exempt.

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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Side of the line	Hospitals	Estimated cut, taken or not (whole dollars)
Under the line: not cut	82	$52,846,861
Over the line: cut	59	$29,847,503

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA, year by year

Every hospital in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA with a payment decision in any year, one sliver each, one row per fiscal year; red where CMS cut it. At the right of each row: the share of Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 5. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA’s share cut was above the nation’s in 10 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 27 of its 29 hospitals have been cut at least once.

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	Hospitals with a decision	Cut	Share cut	Nation
FY2015	27	8	29.6%	21.9%
FY2016	27	9	33.3%	23.4%
FY2017	27	13	48.1%	24.0%
FY2018	27	11	40.7%	23.6%
FY2019	27	12	44.4%	25.0%
FY2020	27	7	25.9%	25.0%
FY2021	27	4	14.8%	24.9%
FY2022	27	7	25.9%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	29	11	37.9%	24.9%
FY2025	29	13	44.8%	24.8%
FY2026	29	11	37.9%	24.9%

Every hospital in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/12054/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.