Metro area

New Orleans-Metairie, LA

CMS cut 1 of the 10 hospitals in New Orleans-Metairie, LA with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 10.0%, against 24.9% nationally.

New Orleans-Metairie, LA · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 10 with a payment decision

2Share cut

10.0%

−14.9 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

41st of 59

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

4Median score

−0.2962

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 10 scored (60%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$597K estimate

0.2% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $486–649K

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$42

The nation: $47

10% 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 New Orleans-Metairie, LA’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. New Orleans-Metairie, LA: 1 cut of 10 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
East Jefferson General Hospital	Metairie	0.1087	No
New Orleans East Hospital	New Orleans	−0.3985	No
Ochsner Medical Center Acute	New Orleans	0.1411	No
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner	Kenner	−0.7542	No
Omega Hospital, LLC	Metairie	N/A	No
St Bernard Parish Hospital	Chalmette	−1.4622	No
St Charles Parish Hospital	Luling	−0.7298	No
St Charles Surgical Hospital	New Orleans	−0.2426	No
Touro Infirmary	New Orleans	0.2224	No
University Medical Center New Orleans	New Orleans	0.7992	Yes
West Jefferson Medical Center	Marrero	−0.3497	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. 10.0% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.2962, 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	0	126
−0.8	−0.6	2	204
−0.6	−0.4	0	290
−0.4	−0.2	3	357
−0.2	0.0	0	407
0.0	0.2	2	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 PSI 90 (67% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CDI (11%).

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	9	67%
CLABSI	6	50%
CAUTI	6	33%
SSI	6	50%
CDI	9	11%
MRSA	6	67%

New Orleans-Metairie, LA, year by year

Every hospital in New Orleans-Metairie, LA 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 New Orleans-Metairie, LA’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 4. New Orleans-Metairie, LA’s share cut was above the nation’s in 9 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 10 of its 11 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	9	2	22.2%	21.9%
FY2016	9	4	44.4%	23.4%
FY2017	10	7	70.0%	24.0%
FY2018	10	6	60.0%	23.6%
FY2019	11	6	54.5%	25.0%
FY2020	11	5	45.5%	25.0%
FY2021	11	5	45.5%	24.9%
FY2022	11	4	36.4%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	11	3	27.3%	24.9%
FY2025	11	2	18.2%	24.8%
FY2026	10	1	10.0%	24.9%

Every hospital in New Orleans-Metairie, LA

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. New Orleans-Metairie, LA: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/35380/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.