Metro area

Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA

CMS cut 5 of the 15 hospitals in Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 33.3%, against 24.9% nationally.

Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 15 with a payment decision

2Share cut

33.3%

+8.5 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

14th of 59

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

4Median score

0.2495

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 15 scored (93%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$2.5M estimate

0.8% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $1.9–3.0M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$41

The nation: $47

33% 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 Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA’s, red where CMS cut.

On the map

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. Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA: 5 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
Anna Jaques Hospital	Newburyport	0.2495	No
Cambridge Health Alliance	Cambridge	0.6458	Yes
Emerson Hospital -	W Concord	−0.5169	No
Holy Family Hospital	Methuen	−0.0166	No
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington	Burlington	0.2976	No
Lowell General Hospital	Lowell	1.0519	Yes
Marlborough Hospital	Marlborough	0.5125	Yes
Melrosewakefield Healthcare	Melrose	−0.1710	No
Merrimack Health Lawrence Hospital	Lawrence	−0.2448	No
Metrowest Medical Center	Framingham	0.5504	Yes
Mount Auburn Hospital	Cambridge	0.3468	No
Newton-Wellesley Hospital	Newton	−0.2052	No
North Shore Medical Center -	Salem	0.1330	No
Northeast Hospital Corporation	Beverly	0.7231	Yes
Winchester Hospital	Winchester	−0.3854	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. 33.3% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.2495, 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	2	357
−0.2	0.0	2	407
0.0	0.2	2	343
0.2	0.4	3	333
0.4	0.6	2	237
0.6	0.8	2	173
0.8	1.0	0	116
1.0	1.2	1	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 (87% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (20%).

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	15	73%
CLABSI	15	67%
CAUTI	15	87%
SSI	14	50%
CDI	15	80%
MRSA	15	20%

Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA across the line

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

Figure 4. Of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA has 1 hospital not cut, where a cut would have been about $565K.

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

Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA, year by year

Every hospital in Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, 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 Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 5. Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA’s share cut was above the nation’s in 6 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 12 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	2	13.3%	21.9%
FY2016	15	3	20.0%	23.4%
FY2017	15	6	40.0%	24.0%
FY2018	15	2	13.3%	23.6%
FY2019	15	2	13.3%	25.0%
FY2020	15	4	26.7%	25.0%
FY2021	15	5	33.3%	24.9%
FY2022	15	5	33.3%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	15	4	26.7%	24.9%
FY2025	15	3	20.0%	24.8%
FY2026	15	5	33.3%	24.9%

Every hospital in Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA

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

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Paid & Penalized. Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/15764/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.