Metro area

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

CMS cut 1 of the 17 hospitals in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 5.9%, against 24.9% nationally.

This metro area reaches into IN, KY, OH; this page shows all of its hospitals.

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 17 with a payment decision

2Share cut

5.9%

−19.0 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

51st of 59

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

4Median score

−0.0730

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 17 scored (94%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$38K estimate

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

Likely range $28–48K

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 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN’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. Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN: 1 cut of 17 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
Atrium Medical Center	Franklin	−0.4484	No
Bethesda North	Cincinnati	−0.1892	No
Christ Hospital	Cincinnati	−0.4879	No
Fort Hamilton Hughes Memorial Hospital	Hamilton	−0.2942	No
Good Samaritan Hospital	Cincinnati	−0.3401	No
McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital	Oxford	0.6633	Yes
Mercy Health - Clermont Hospital	Batavia	−0.0777	No
Mercy Health - Fairfield Hospital	Fairfield	−0.0936	No
Mercy Health - West Hospital	Cincinnati	0.0523	No
Mercy Health Kings Mills Hospital LLC	Mason	N/A	No
Mercy Health-Anderson Hospital	Cincinnati	0.1927	No
St Elizabeth Dearborn Hospital	Lawrenceburg	0.0177	No
St Elizabeth Edgewood	Edgewood	0.1806	No
St Elizabeth Florence	Florence	−0.1041	No
St Elizabeth Ft Thomas	Fort Thomas	−0.0730	No
The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health	Cincinnati	0.1521	No
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, LLC	Cincinnati	0.2799	No
West Chester Hospital	West Chester	0.1255	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. 5.9% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.0730, 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	2	290
−0.4	−0.2	2	357
−0.2	0.0	5	407
0.0	0.2	5	343
0.2	0.4	2	333
0.4	0.6	0	237
0.6	0.8	1	173
0.8	1.0	0	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 SSI (76% of its hospitals above the national median); best on PSI 90 (24%).

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	17	24%
CLABSI	16	38%
CAUTI	16	75%
SSI	17	76%
CDI	17	35%
MRSA	16	44%

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN, year by year

Every hospital in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 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 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 4. Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN’s share cut was above the nation’s in 1 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 10 of its 17 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	17	3	17.6%	21.9%
FY2016	17	0	0.0%	23.4%
FY2017	17	4	23.5%	24.0%
FY2018	17	2	11.8%	23.6%
FY2019	17	3	17.6%	25.0%
FY2020	17	2	11.8%	25.0%
FY2021	17	3	17.6%	24.9%
FY2022	17	5	29.4%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	17	1	5.9%	24.9%
FY2025	17	1	5.9%	24.8%
FY2026	17	1	5.9%	24.9%

Every hospital in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/17140/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.