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Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC

CMS cut 1 of the 4 hospitals in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 25.0%, against 24.9% nationally.

A share of a handful of hospitals moves a long way with one hospital; read it with its counts.

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 4 with a payment decision

2Share cut

25.0%

+0.1 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Median score

−0.0792

Nation: −0.0453

4Scored on all 6

Of 4 scored (100%; nation 66%)

5Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

6Estimated dollars

$117K estimate

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

Likely range $89–148K

7Per traditional Medicare stay

$20

The nation: $47

25% 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC’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. Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC: 1 cut of 4 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
Blue Ridge Healthcare Hospitals, Inc	Morganton	−0.4048	No
Caldwell Memorial Hospital	Lenoir	0.8964	Yes
Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory	−0.4279	No
Frye Regional Medical Center	Hickory	0.2464	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. 25.0% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.0792, 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	1	333
0.4	0.6	0	237
0.6	0.8	0	173
0.8	1.0	1	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 CAUTI (100% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CDI (25%).

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	4	50%
CLABSI	4	75%
CAUTI	4	100%
SSI	4	50%
CDI	4	25%
MRSA	4	25%

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, year by year

Every hospital in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 4. Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC’s share cut was above the nation’s in 5 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 4 of its 4 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	4	1	25.0%	21.9%
FY2016	4	0	0.0%	23.4%
FY2017	4	0	0.0%	24.0%
FY2018	4	0	0.0%	23.6%
FY2019	4	1	25.0%	25.0%
FY2020	4	1	25.0%	25.0%
FY2021	4	1	25.0%	24.9%
FY2022	4	1	25.0%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	4	2	50.0%	24.9%
FY2025	4	2	50.0%	24.8%
FY2026	4	1	25.0%	24.9%

Every hospital in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/25860/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.