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Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX

CMS cut 1 of the 18 hospitals in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 5.6%, against 24.9% nationally.

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 18 with a payment decision

2Share cut

5.6%

−19.3 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

52nd of 59

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

4Median score

−0.3001

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 18 scored (61%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$17K estimate

0.0% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $13–21K

8Per traditional Medicare stay

The nation: $47

6% 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 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX’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. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX: 1 cut of 18 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
Ascension Seton Cedar Park	Cedar Park	−0.7917	No
Ascension Seton Hays	Kyle	−0.7218	No
Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin	Austin	−0.5209	No
Ascension Seton Northwest	Austin	−0.9387	No
Ascension Seton Southwest	Austin	0.0142	No
Ascension Seton Williamson	Round Rock	−0.3524	No
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Buda	Buda	0.1341	No
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Round Rock	Round Rock	−0.0563	No
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Pflugerville	Pflugerville	−0.7982	No
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center- Austin	Austin	0.1196	No
Brushy Creek Family Hospital LLC	Round Rock	N/A	No
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-San Marcos	San Marcos	−0.3907	No
Dell Seton Med Center at the University of TX	Austin	0.3109	No
North Austin Medical Center	Austin	−0.5211	No
Northwest Hills Surgical Hospital	Austin	0.8824	Yes
Round Rock Medical Center	Round Rock	−0.2478	No
St David's Medical Center	Austin	0.1673	No
St David's South Austin Medical Center	Austin	−0.1688	No
The Hospital at Westlake Medical Center	Austin	−0.5845	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. 5.6% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.3001, 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	0	40
−1.4	−1.2	0	17
−1.2	−1.0	0	51
−1.0	−0.8	1	126
−0.8	−0.6	3	204
−0.6	−0.4	3	290
−0.4	−0.2	3	357
−0.2	0.0	2	407
0.0	0.2	4	343
0.2	0.4	1	333
0.4	0.6	0	237
0.6	0.8	0	173
0.8	1.0	1	116
1.0	1.2	0	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 MRSA (64% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CDI (14%).

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	18	39%
CLABSI	12	42%
CAUTI	12	50%
SSI	13	46%
CDI	14	14%
MRSA	11	64%

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX, year by year

Every hospital in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX 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 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 4. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX’s share cut was above the nation’s in 1 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 10 of its 18 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	15	3	20.0%	21.9%
FY2016	15	5	33.3%	23.4%
FY2017	15	3	20.0%	24.0%
FY2018	15	1	6.7%	23.6%
FY2019	15	2	13.3%	25.0%
FY2020	15	1	6.7%	25.0%
FY2021	15	2	13.3%	24.9%
FY2022	15	3	20.0%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	18	2	11.1%	24.9%
FY2025	18	3	16.7%	24.8%
FY2026	18	1	5.6%	24.9%

Every hospital in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/12420/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.