Metro area

Birmingham, AL

CMS cut 5 of the 13 hospitals in Birmingham, AL with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 38.5%, against 24.9% nationally.

Birmingham, AL · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 13 with a payment decision

2Share cut

38.5%

+13.6 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

8th of 59

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

4Median score

0.2881

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 13 scored (69%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$376K estimate

0.1% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $284–472K

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$15

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 Birmingham, AL’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. Birmingham, AL: 5 cut of 13 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
Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital	Birmingham	−0.2243	No
Bibb Medical Center	Centreville	1.0547	Yes
Grandview Medical Center	Birmingham	−0.2979	No
Medical West, An Affiliate of UAB Health System	Bessemer	0.6634	Yes
Princeton Baptist Medical Center	Birmingham	0.3154	No
Shelby Baptist Medical Center	Alabaster	0.6591	Yes
St Vincent's Birmingham	Birmingham	−0.1513	No
St Vincent's Chilton	Clanton	1.0474	Yes
St Vincent's St Clair	Pell City	0.9644	Yes
St. Vincent's East	Birmingham	−0.0474	No
UAB Callahan Eye Hospital Authority	Birmingham	0.0109	No
University of Alabama Hospital	Birmingham	0.2881	No
Walker Baptist Medical Center	Jasper	0.0658	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. 38.5% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.2881, 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	0	126
−0.8	−0.6	0	204
−0.6	−0.4	0	290
−0.4	−0.2	2	357
−0.2	0.0	2	407
0.0	0.2	2	343
0.2	0.4	2	333
0.4	0.6	0	237
0.6	0.8	2	173
0.8	1.0	1	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 MRSA (89% of its hospitals above the national median); best on SSI (33%).

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	12	58%
CLABSI	9	67%
CAUTI	10	50%
SSI	9	33%
CDI	12	75%
MRSA	9	89%

Birmingham, AL, year by year

Every hospital in Birmingham, AL 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 Birmingham, AL’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 4. Birmingham, AL’s share cut was above the nation’s in 2 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 8 of its 13 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	12	2	16.7%	21.9%
FY2016	12	1	8.3%	23.4%
FY2017	11	1	9.1%	24.0%
FY2018	11	1	9.1%	23.6%
FY2019	13	2	15.4%	25.0%
FY2020	13	2	15.4%	25.0%
FY2021	13	1	7.7%	24.9%
FY2022	13	2	15.4%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	13	2	15.4%	24.9%
FY2025	13	4	30.8%	24.8%
FY2026	13	5	38.5%	24.9%

Every hospital in Birmingham, AL

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Birmingham, AL, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. Birmingham, AL: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/13820/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.