Metro area

Columbus, OH

CMS cut 7 of the 14 hospitals in Columbus, OH with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 50.0%, against 24.9% nationally.

Columbus, OH · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 14 with a payment decision

2Share cut

50.0%

+25.1 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

3rd of 59

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

4Median score

0.3795

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 14 scored (71%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$6.1M estimate

2.0% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $5.0–6.8M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$166

The nation: $47

50% 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 Columbus, OH’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. Columbus, OH: 7 cut of 14 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
Berger Hospital	Circleville	0.3120	No
Diley Ridge Medical Center	Canal Winchester	N/A	No
Doctors Hospital	Columbus	0.1948	No
Dublin Methodist Hospital	Dublin	0.3608	No
Fairfield Medical Center	Lancaster	0.4561	Yes
Grady Memorial Hospital	Delaware	0.3186	No
Grant Medical Center	Columbus	0.7872	Yes
Licking Memorial Hospital	Newark	1.7662	Yes
Madison Health	London	0.3982	Yes
Memorial Hospital	Marysville	0.1129	No
Mount Carmel Dublin	Dublin	N/A	No
Mount Carmel East & West	Columbus	0.9490	Yes
Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital	New Albany	−0.8605	No
Mount Carmel St Ann's	Westerville	−0.1817	No
Ohio State University State Health System	Columbus	0.5152	Yes
Riverside Methodist Hospital	Columbus	0.4903	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. 50.0% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.3795, 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	0	204
−0.6	−0.4	0	290
−0.4	−0.2	0	357
−0.2	0.0	1	407
0.0	0.2	1	343
0.2	0.4	4	333
0.4	0.6	4	237
0.6	0.8	0	173
0.8	1.0	2	116
1.0	1.2	0	91
1.2	1.4	0	30
1.4	1.6	0	21
1.6	1.8	1	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 (90% of its hospitals above the national median); best on PSI 90 (50%).

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	50%
CLABSI	11	64%
CAUTI	12	83%
SSI	13	69%
CDI	13	85%
MRSA	10	90%

Columbus, OH across the line

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

Figure 4. 2 of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates are Columbus, OH’s: 1 cut, about $30K by this site’s estimate, and 1 not cut, where a cut would have been about $260K.

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

Columbus, OH, year by year

Every hospital in Columbus, OH 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 Columbus, OH’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 5. Columbus, OH’s share cut was above the nation’s in 6 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	2	13.3%	21.9%
FY2016	14	0	0.0%	23.4%
FY2017	14	4	28.6%	24.0%
FY2018	15	3	20.0%	23.6%
FY2019	15	3	20.0%	25.0%
FY2020	15	1	6.7%	25.0%
FY2021	15	4	26.7%	24.9%
FY2022	15	4	26.7%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	14	7	50.0%	24.9%
FY2025	14	8	57.1%	24.8%
FY2026	14	7	50.0%	24.9%

Every hospital in Columbus, OH

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

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Paid & Penalized. Columbus, OH: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/18140/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.