Metro area

Philadelphia, PA

CMS cut 5 of the 13 hospitals in Philadelphia, PA with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 38.5%, against 24.9% nationally.

Philadelphia, PA · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 13 with a payment decision

2Share cut

38.5%

+13.6 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

8th of 59

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

4Median score

0.2073

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 13 scored (92%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$4.5M estimate

1.5% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $3.6–5.1M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$96

The nation: $47

38% 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 Philadelphia, PA’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. Philadelphia, PA: 5 cut of 13 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
Crozer Chester Medical Center	Upland	0.8699	Yes
Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	0.2073	No
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital	Philadelphia	0.2841	No
Jefferson Health- Northeast	Philadelphia	0.1356	No
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy Fitzgerald	Darby	1.2253	Yes
Nazareth Hospital	Philadelphia	−0.1744	No
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center	Philadelphia	0.0917	No
Pennsylvania Hospital	Philadelphia	0.3799	Yes
Riddle Memorial Hospital	Media	−0.3317	No
Roxborough Memorial Hospital	Philadelphia	−0.0704	No
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill Hospital	Philadelphia	0.8968	Yes
Temple University Hospital	Philadelphia	0.0063	No
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital	Philadelphia	0.6456	Yes
Wills Eye Hospital	Philadelphia	N/A	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. 38.5% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.2073, 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	0	204
−0.6	−0.4	0	290
−0.4	−0.2	1	357
−0.2	0.0	2	407
0.0	0.2	3	343
0.2	0.4	2	333
0.4	0.6	1	237
0.6	0.8	1	173
0.8	1.0	2	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 CLABSI (85% of its hospitals above the national median); best on PSI 90 (46%).

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	13	46%
CLABSI	13	85%
CAUTI	13	77%
SSI	12	50%
CDI	13	77%
MRSA	13	85%

Philadelphia, PA across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Philadelphia, PA’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, Philadelphia, PA has 1 cut hospital, about $669K by this site’s estimate.

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

Philadelphia, PA, year by year

Every hospital in Philadelphia, PA 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 Philadelphia, PA’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 5. Philadelphia, PA’s share cut was above the nation’s in 8 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 9 of its 14 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	13	5	38.5%	21.9%
FY2016	13	5	38.5%	23.4%
FY2017	13	5	38.5%	24.0%
FY2018	13	2	15.4%	23.6%
FY2019	13	6	46.2%	25.0%
FY2020	13	4	30.8%	25.0%
FY2021	14	6	42.9%	24.9%
FY2022	14	4	28.6%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	13	2	15.4%	24.9%
FY2025	13	2	15.4%	24.8%
FY2026	13	5	38.5%	24.9%

Every hospital in Philadelphia, PA

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Philadelphia, PA, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. Philadelphia, PA: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/37964/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.