Metro area

Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA

CMS cut 4 of the 18 hospitals in Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 22.2%, against 24.9% nationally.

Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 18 with a payment decision

2Share cut

22.2%

−2.7 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

23rd of 59

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

4Median score

−0.0479

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 18 scored (83%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$3.6M estimate

1.2% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $2.8–4.3M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$99

The nation: $47

22% 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 Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA’s, red where CMS cut.

On the map

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. Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA: 4 cut of 18 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
Alameda Hospital	Alameda	−0.6204	No
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center	Oakland	−0.8087	No
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Alta Bates Camp	Berkeley	−0.0079	No
Contra Costa Regional Medical Center	Martinez	−0.0931	No
Eden Medical Center	Castro Valley	−0.5847	No
Highland Hospital	Oakland	1.1876	Yes
John Muir Medical Center - Concord Campus	Concord	0.5130	Yes
John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek Campus	Walnut Creek	0.5571	Yes
Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Antioch	Antioch	0.0384	No
Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Fremont	Fremont	0.3788	No
Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Oakland/Richmond	Oakland	0.2786	No
Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San Leandro	San Leandro	−0.0878	No
Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Walnut Creek	Walnut Creek	0.2989	No
San Ramon Regional Medical Center	San Ramon	−0.7452	No
St Rose Hospital	Hayward	0.8753	Yes
Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley	Pleasanton	−0.5065	No
Sutter Delta Medical Center	Antioch	−0.6179	No
Washington Hospital	Fremont	−0.3622	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. 22.2% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.0479, 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	4	204
−0.6	−0.4	2	290
−0.4	−0.2	1	357
−0.2	0.0	2	407
0.0	0.2	2	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	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 (61% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (39%).

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	18	50%
CLABSI	17	53%
CAUTI	18	56%
SSI	16	56%
CDI	18	61%
MRSA	18	39%

Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA’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, Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA has 1 hospital not cut, where a cut would have been about $30K.

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

Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA, year by year

Every hospital in Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA 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 Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 5. Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA’s share cut was above the nation’s in 7 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 17 of its 18 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	17	7	41.2%	21.9%
FY2016	17	9	52.9%	23.4%
FY2017	18	11	61.1%	24.0%
FY2018	18	8	44.4%	23.6%
FY2019	18	7	38.9%	25.0%
FY2020	18	4	22.2%	25.0%
FY2021	18	7	38.9%	24.9%
FY2022	18	7	38.9%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	18	4	22.2%	24.9%
FY2025	18	4	22.2%	24.8%
FY2026	18	4	22.2%	24.9%

Every hospital in Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Cite this page

Paid & Penalized. Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/36084/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.