Metro area

Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ

CMS cut 0 of the 15 hospitals in Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 0.0%, against 24.9% nationally.

Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 15 with a payment decision

2Share cut

0.0%

−24.9 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

55th of 59

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

4Median score

−0.2089

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 15 scored (100%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

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

8Per traditional Medicare stay

The nation: $47

0% 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 Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ’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. Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ: 0 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
Bayshore Medical Center	Holmdel	−0.6258	No
Centrastate Medical Center	Freehold	−0.1571	No
Community Medical Center	Toms River	−0.5852	No
Jersey Shore University Medical Center	Neptune	0.0601	No
JFK University Medical Center	Edison	0.1003	No
Monmouth Medical Center	Long Branch	−0.7301	No
Monmouth Medical Center-Southern Campus	Lakewood	−0.5546	No
Ocean Medical Center	Brick	0.0162	No
Raritan Bay Medical Center	Perth Amboy	−0.3256	No
Riverview Medical Center	Red Bank	−0.1364	No
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital	New Brunswick	0.2232	No
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset	Somerville	−0.0900	No
Saint Peter's University Hospital	New Brunswick	−0.5369	No
Southern Ocean Medical Center	Manahawkin	−0.2089	No
University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro	Plainsboro	−0.3708	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. 0.0% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.2089, 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	2	204
−0.6	−0.4	3	290
−0.4	−0.2	2	357
−0.2	0.0	4	407
0.0	0.2	3	343
0.2	0.4	1	333
0.4	0.6	0	237
0.6	0.8	0	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 MRSA (60% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CDI (13%).

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	53%
CLABSI	15	20%
CAUTI	15	40%
SSI	15	33%
CDI	15	13%
MRSA	15	60%

Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ, year by year

Every hospital in Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ 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 Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 4. Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ’s share cut was above the nation’s in 5 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 15 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	9	60.0%	21.9%
FY2016	15	7	46.7%	23.4%
FY2017	15	7	46.7%	24.0%
FY2018	15	3	20.0%	23.6%
FY2019	15	3	20.0%	25.0%
FY2020	15	3	20.0%	25.0%
FY2021	15	5	33.3%	24.9%
FY2022	15	5	33.3%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	15	3	20.0%	24.9%
FY2025	15	0	0.0%	24.8%
FY2026	15	0	0.0%	24.9%

Every hospital in Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/29484/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.