Metro area

Boston, MA

CMS cut 9 of the 15 hospitals in Boston, MA with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 60.0%, against 24.9% nationally.

Boston, MA · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 15 with a payment decision

2Share cut

60.0%

+35.1 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

1st of 59

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

4Median score

0.4598

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 15 scored (80%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$8.5M estimate

2.8% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $6.8–9.5M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$104

The nation: $47

60% 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 Boston, MA’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. Boston, MA: 9 cut of 15 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
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton	Milton	0.8808	Yes
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham	Needham	0.4598	Yes
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Plymouth	Plymouth	0.3598	No
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Boston	0.4969	Yes
Boston Medical Center	Boston	0.3543	No
Boston Medical Center-Brighton	Brighton	−0.2950	No
Brigham and Women Faulkner Hospital	Jamaica Plain	0.4149	Yes
Brigham and Women's Hospital	Boston	0.2131	No
Good Samaritan Medical Center	Brockton	−0.4605	No
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary -	Boston	1.0946	Yes
Massachusetts General Hospital	Boston	0.1843	No
New England Baptist Hospital	Boston	0.5280	Yes
Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital	Brockton	0.5174	Yes
South Shore Hospital	South Weymouth	0.5827	Yes
Tufts Medical Center	Boston	1.1000	Yes

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. 60.0% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.4598, 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	1	290
−0.4	−0.2	1	357
−0.2	0.0	0	407
0.0	0.2	0	343
0.2	0.4	4	333
0.4	0.6	5	237
0.6	0.8	1	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 CAUTI (92% of its hospitals above the national median); best on PSI 90 (43%).

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	14	43%
CLABSI	13	62%
CAUTI	13	92%
SSI	12	83%
CDI	15	80%
MRSA	12	75%

Boston, MA across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Boston, MA’s in full ink: scores a hair apart, money all or nothing.

Figure 4. 3 of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates are Boston, MA’s: 1 cut, about $525K by this site’s estimate, and 2 not cut, where a cut would have been about $2.4M.

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

Boston, MA, year by year

Every hospital in Boston, MA 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 Boston, MA’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 5. Boston, MA’s share cut was above the nation’s in 8 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 13 of its 15 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	5	33.3%	21.9%
FY2016	15	4	26.7%	23.4%
FY2017	15	5	33.3%	24.0%
FY2018	15	2	13.3%	23.6%
FY2019	15	2	13.3%	25.0%
FY2020	15	3	20.0%	25.0%
FY2021	15	5	33.3%	24.9%
FY2022	15	4	26.7%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	15	4	26.7%	24.9%
FY2025	15	6	40.0%	24.8%
FY2026	15	9	60.0%	24.9%

Every hospital in Boston, MA

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

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Paid & Penalized. Boston, MA: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/14454/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.