Metro area

Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA

CMS cut 5 of the 14 hospitals in Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 35.7%, against 24.9% nationally.

Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 14 with a payment decision

2Share cut

35.7%

+10.8 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

13th of 59

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

4Median score

0.1865

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 14 scored (79%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$4.4M estimate

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

Likely range $3.6–4.8M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$128

The nation: $47

36% 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 Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA’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. Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA: 5 cut of 14 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
Evergreenhealth Medical Center	Kirkland	−0.3875	No
Harborview Medical Center	Seattle	1.5608	Yes
Highline Medical Center	Burien	−0.2965	No
Kaiser Permanente Central Hospital	Seattle	0.0453	No
Multicare Auburn Medical Center	Auburn	−0.1230	No
Multicare Covington Medical Center	Covington	0.4894	Yes
Overlake Hospital Medical Center & Clinics	Bellevue	0.5857	Yes
St Francis Community Hospital	Federal Way	−0.4372	No
Swedish Issaquah	Issaquah	0.1054	No
Swedish Medical Center	Seattle	0.3055	No
Swedish Medical Center / Cherry Hill	Seattle	0.2676	No
University of Washington Medical Ctr	Seattle	0.7996	Yes
Valley Medical Center	Renton	0.8737	Yes
Virginia Mason Medical Center	Seattle	−0.7265	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. 35.7% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.1865, 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	2	357
−0.2	0.0	1	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	2	116
1.0	1.2	0	91
1.2	1.4	0	30
1.4	1.6	1	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 (85% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (42%).

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	14	43%
CLABSI	12	58%
CAUTI	12	83%
SSI	11	55%
CDI	13	85%
MRSA	12	42%

Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA, year by year

Every hospital in Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA 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 Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 4. Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA’s share cut was above the nation’s in 5 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 11 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	12	5	41.7%	21.9%
FY2016	12	7	58.3%	23.4%
FY2017	13	6	46.2%	24.0%
FY2018	12	2	16.7%	23.6%
FY2019	12	2	16.7%	25.0%
FY2020	13	2	15.4%	25.0%
FY2021	14	2	14.3%	24.9%
FY2022	14	1	7.1%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	13	2	15.4%	24.9%
FY2025	14	5	35.7%	24.8%
FY2026	14	5	35.7%	24.9%

Every hospital in Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Paid & Penalized. Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/42644/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.