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Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

CMS cut 6 of the 45 hospitals in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 13.3%, against 24.9% nationally.

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 45 with a payment decision

2Share cut

13.3%

−11.5 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

32nd of 59

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

4Median score

−0.3709

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 45 scored (67%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$2.3M estimate

0.7% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $1.8–2.6M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$24

The nation: $47

13% 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX’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. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX: 6 cut of 45 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
Ad Hospital East, LLC	Houston	−0.5246	No
Altus Houston Hospital, LP	Houston	N/A	No
Baylor St Lukes Medical Center	Houston	0.0925	No
Baytown Medical Center LP	Baytown	0.0548	No
Bellville Medical Center	Bellville	N/A	No
CHI St Luke's Health Brazosport	Lake Jackson	−0.7907	No
CHI St Lukes Lakeside Hospital	The Woodlands	−0.6604	No
East Houston Medical Center	Houston	2.1717	Yes
Elite Hospital Kingwood	Kingwood	2.1966	Yes
Harris Health	Houston	0.3776	No
HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake	Webster	−0.3709	No
HCA Houston Healthcare Conroe	Conroe	0.5000	Yes
HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood	Kingwood	−0.5959	No
HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center	Houston	0.2495	No
HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest	Houston	−0.2277	No
HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland	Pearland	−0.7731	No
HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast	Pasadena	−0.7220	No
HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball	Tomball	−0.8703	No
HCA Houston Healthcare West	Houston	0.0082	No
Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital	Baytown	−0.4851	No
Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital	Nassau Bay	−0.7512	No
Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital	Cypress	N/A	No
Houston Methodist Hospital	Houston	−0.4032	No
Houston Methodist Sugarland Hospital	Sugar Land	−0.4615	No
Houston Methodist the Woodlands Hospital	The Woodlands	−0.8967	No
Houston Methodist West Hospital	Houston	−0.5187	No
Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital	Houston	−0.5323	No
Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center	Houston	−0.1101	No
Memorial Hermann Hospital System	Houston	−0.1564	No
Memorial Hermann Houston Physicians Hospital	Webster	−0.6189	No
Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital	Katy	−0.7103	No
Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital	Houston	−0.1011	No
Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital	Humble	0.2647	No
Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital	Sugar Land	0.1637	No
Memorial Hermann Surgical Hospital Kingwood	Kingwood	−0.7848	No
Oakbend Medical Center	Richmond	−0.0932	No
St Joseph Medical Center	Houston	−0.5319	No
St Luke's Hospital at the Vintage	Houston	−0.5957	No
St Luke's Patients Medical Center	Pasadena	−0.4387	No
St Luke's Sugar Land Hospital	Sugar Land	−0.0044	No
St Luke's the Woodlands Hospital	The Woodlands	1.2996	Yes
St Michaels Medical Hospital LLC	Sugar Land	N/A	No
Sugar Land Surgical Hospital LLP	Sugar Land	0.4316	Yes
Surgery Specialty Hospitals of America SE Houston	Pasadena	N/A	No
Texas Orthopedic Hospital	Houston	−1.4728	No
The Woodlands Specialty Hospital	Spring	0.0143	No
Tops Surgical Specialty Hospital	Houston	−0.2970	No
Townsen Memorial Hospital	Humble	−0.0258	No
University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston	Galveston	0.7830	Yes
Womans Hospital of Texas,the	Houston	−0.4527	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. 13.3% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.3709, 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	1	40
−1.4	−1.2	0	17
−1.2	−1.0	0	51
−1.0	−0.8	2	126
−0.8	−0.6	8	204
−0.6	−0.4	10	290
−0.4	−0.2	4	357
−0.2	0.0	5	407
0.0	0.2	6	343
0.2	0.4	3	333
0.4	0.6	2	237
0.6	0.8	0	173
0.8	1.0	1	116
1.0	1.2	0	91
1.2	1.4	1	30
1.4	1.6	0	21
1.6	1.8	0	10
1.8	2.0	0	3
2.0	2.2	1	13
2.2	2.4	1	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 (56% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CDI (9%).

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	43	49%
CLABSI	33	48%
CAUTI	33	15%
SSI	32	56%
CDI	34	9%
MRSA	30	47%

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX’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, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX has 1 hospital not cut, where a cut would have been about $2.0M.

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

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, year by year

Every hospital in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 5. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX’s share cut was above the nation’s in 1 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 29 of its 48 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	39	3	7.7%	21.9%
FY2016	39	7	17.9%	23.4%
FY2017	39	8	20.5%	24.0%
FY2018	41	7	17.1%	23.6%
FY2019	42	7	16.7%	25.0%
FY2020	43	11	25.6%	25.0%
FY2021	43	6	14.0%	24.9%
FY2022	43	6	14.0%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	46	9	19.6%	24.9%
FY2025	46	4	8.7%	24.8%
FY2026	45	6	13.3%	24.9%

Every hospital in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/26420/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.