Metro area

Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI

CMS cut 2 of the 15 hospitals in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 13.3%, against 24.9% nationally.

Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 15 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

−0.0518

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 15 scored (67%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$1.8M estimate

0.6% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $1.5–2.0M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$59

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 Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI’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. Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI: 2 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
Ascension Columbia St Marys Hospital Milwaukee	Milwaukee	−0.0518	No
Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital	Milwaukee	0.2283	No
Ascension St Francis Hospital	Milwaukee	−0.0992	No
Ascension Wisconsin Hosp Menomonee Falls Campus	Menomonee Falls	N/A	No
Aurora Medical Center	Grafton	0.2778	No
Aurora Medical Center - Summit	Summit	0.1682	No
Aurora Medical Ctr Washington County	Hartford	0.1050	No
Aurora St Lukes Medical Center	Milwaukee	0.5694	Yes
Community Memorial Hospital	Menomonee Falls	−0.2960	No
Froedtert Community Hospital	New Berlin	N/A	No
Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital	Milwaukee	−0.1351	No
Midwest Orthopedic Specialty Hospital	Franklin	−0.3350	No
Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital	Oconomowoc	−0.4288	No
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin	Glendale	−0.8045	No
St Josephs Community Hospital West Bend	West Bend	−0.0287	No
Waukesha Memorial Hospital	Waukesha	−0.4077	No
West Allis Memorial Hospital	West Allis	0.5818	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. 13.3% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.0518, 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	1	204
−0.6	−0.4	1	290
−0.4	−0.2	3	357
−0.2	0.0	4	407
0.0	0.2	2	343
0.2	0.4	2	333
0.4	0.6	1	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 CDI (77% of its hospitals above the national median); best on PSI 90 (27%).

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	27%
CLABSI	12	42%
CAUTI	12	58%
SSI	10	70%
CDI	13	77%
MRSA	10	50%

Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, year by year

Every hospital in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 4. Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI’s share cut was above the nation’s in 7 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 12 of its 16 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	3	20.0%	21.9%
FY2016	15	5	33.3%	23.4%
FY2017	15	2	13.3%	24.0%
FY2018	15	4	26.7%	23.6%
FY2019	15	5	33.3%	25.0%
FY2020	15	7	46.7%	25.0%
FY2021	15	6	40.0%	24.9%
FY2022	15	6	40.0%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	15	3	20.0%	24.9%
FY2025	16	4	25.0%	24.8%
FY2026	15	2	13.3%	24.9%

Every hospital in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/33340/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.