Metro area

Washington, DC-MD

CMS cut 1 of the 6 hospitals in Washington, DC-MD with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 16.7%, against 24.9% nationally.

This metro area reaches into DC, MD; this page shows all of its hospitals.

Maryland’s hospitals are scored but not subject to the reduction: under an agreement with the state, CMS exempts them.

A share of a handful of hospitals moves a long way with one hospital; read it with its counts.

Washington, DC-MD · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 6 with a payment decision

2Share cut

16.7%

−8.2 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Median score

0.0306

Nation: −0.0453

4Scored on all 6

Of 11 scored (82%; nation 66%)

5Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

6Estimated dollars

$390K estimate

0.1% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $297–490K

7Per traditional Medicare stay

$19

The nation: $47

17% 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 Washington, DC-MD’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. Washington, DC-MD: 1 cut of 6 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
Adventist Healthcare Fort Washington Medical Ctr	Fort Washington	−0.0196	N/A
George Washington Univ Hospital	Washington	0.3419	No
Howard University Hospital Corp	Washington	0.5994	Yes
Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Ctr, Inc	Lanham	0.7066	N/A
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital	Washington	0.0306	No
MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center	Clinton	−0.5071	N/A
MedStar Washington Hospital Center	Washington	−0.3612	No
Sibley Memorial Hospital	Washington	0.0558	No
United Medical Center	Washington	−0.1729	No
University of MD Capital Region Medical Center	Upper Marlboro	0.5800	N/A
University of MD Charles Regional Medical Center	La Plata	−0.4049	N/A

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. 16.7% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.0306, 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	1	407
0.0	0.2	2	343
0.2	0.4	1	333
0.4	0.6	0	237
0.6	0.8	1	173
0.8	1.0	0	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 CLABSI (64% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CAUTI (40%).

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	11	55%
CLABSI	11	64%
CAUTI	10	40%
SSI	9	44%
CDI	11	64%
MRSA	10	50%

Washington, DC-MD across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Washington, DC-MD’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, Washington, DC-MD has 1 hospital not cut, where a cut would have been about $1.1M.

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

Washington, DC-MD, year by year

Every hospital in Washington, DC-MD 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 Washington, DC-MD’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 5. Washington, DC-MD’s share cut was above the nation’s in 8 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 5 of its 6 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	6	4	66.7%	21.9%
FY2016	6	4	66.7%	23.4%
FY2017	6	2	33.3%	24.0%
FY2018	6	2	33.3%	23.6%
FY2019	6	2	33.3%	25.0%
FY2020	6	3	50.0%	25.0%
FY2021	6	3	50.0%	24.9%
FY2022	6	3	50.0%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	6	1	16.7%	24.9%
FY2025	6	1	16.7%	24.8%
FY2026	6	1	16.7%	24.9%

Every hospital in Washington, DC-MD

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Washington, DC-MD, with its Total HAC Score and payment reduction decision as CMS reports them

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Cite this page

Paid & Penalized. Washington, DC-MD: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/metro/47764/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.