Metro area

Pittsburgh, PA

CMS cut 11 of the 28 hospitals in Pittsburgh, PA with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 39.3%, against 24.9% nationally.

Pittsburgh, PA · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 28 with a payment decision

2Share cut

39.3%

+14.4 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

7th of 59

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

4Median score

0.2590

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 28 scored (75%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$4.2M estimate

1.4% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $3.4–4.8M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$101

The nation: $47

39% 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 Pittsburgh, PA’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. Pittsburgh, PA: 11 cut of 28 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
ACMH Hospital	Kittanning	−0.6795	No
Advanced Surgical Hospital	Washington	−0.3085	No
AHN Emerus Westmoreland, LLC	Greensburg	N/A	No
AHN Wexford Hospital	Wexford	−0.0126	No
Allegheny General Hospital	Pittsburgh	0.1332	No
Allegheny Valley Hospital	Natrona	−0.6167	No
Canonsburg General Hospital	Canonsburg	0.6886	Yes
Excela Health - Frick Hospital	Mount Pleasant	0.3566	No
Excela Health Latrobe Hospital	Latrobe	0.5364	Yes
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional Hospital	Greensburg	0.1874	No
Forbes Hospital	Monroeville	0.2686	No
Heritage Valley Beaver	Beaver	0.8121	Yes
Heritage Valley Sewickley	Sewickley	0.9859	Yes
Independence Health System Butler Memorial Hospita	Butler	0.6301	Yes
Jefferson Hospital	Jefferson Hills	−0.2671	No
Magee Womens Hospital of UPMC Health System	Pittsburgh	0.8548	Yes
Penn Highlands Connellsville	Connellsville	−1.4622	No
Penn Highlands Mon Valley	Monongahela	0.7215	Yes
St Clair Hospital	Pittsburgh	−0.4668	No
Uniontown Hospital	Uniontown	0.9655	Yes
UPMC East	Monroeville	0.0761	No
UPMC Jameson	New Castle	0.6051	Yes
UPMC McKeesport Hospital	McKeesport	0.3062	No
UPMC Mercy	Pittsburgh	−0.0130	No
UPMC Passavant	Pittsburgh	0.0877	No
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside	Pittsburgh	0.8919	Yes
UPMC St Margaret	Pittsburgh	0.2493	No
Washington Hospital, The	Washington	0.1948	No
West Penn Hospital	Pittsburgh	0.7487	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. 39.3% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.2590, 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	1	290
−0.4	−0.2	2	357
−0.2	0.0	0	407
0.0	0.2	5	343
0.2	0.4	6	333
0.4	0.6	1	237
0.6	0.8	5	173
0.8	1.0	4	116
1.0	1.2	1	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 (78% of its hospitals above the national median); best on SSI (50%).

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	27	52%
CLABSI	25	68%
CAUTI	25	56%
SSI	22	50%
CDI	27	78%
MRSA	23	70%

Pittsburgh, PA across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Pittsburgh, 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, Pittsburgh, PA has 1 hospital not cut, where a cut would have been about $38K.

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

Pittsburgh, PA, year by year

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

Figure 5. Pittsburgh, PA’s share cut was above the nation’s in 7 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 22 of its 28 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	27	6	22.2%	21.9%
FY2016	27	5	18.5%	23.4%
FY2017	27	7	25.9%	24.0%
FY2018	26	9	34.6%	23.6%
FY2019	27	5	18.5%	25.0%
FY2020	27	3	11.1%	25.0%
FY2021	27	4	14.8%	24.9%
FY2022	27	8	29.6%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	28	8	28.6%	24.9%
FY2025	28	10	35.7%	24.8%
FY2026	28	11	39.3%	24.9%

Every hospital in Pittsburgh, PA

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

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Cite this page

Paid & Penalized. Pittsburgh, PA: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/38300/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.