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Alaska

CMS cut 4 of the 8 hospitals in Alaska with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 50.0%, against 24.9% nationally.

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

Alaska · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 8 with a payment decision

2Share cut

50.0%

+25.1 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

5th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.2409

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 8 scored (75%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$2.4M estimate

0.8% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $1.9–2.8M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$161

The nation: $47

50% 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 Alaska’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. Alaska: 4 cut of 8 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
Alaska Native Medical Center	Anchorage	0.8527	Yes
Alaska Regional Hospital	Anchorage	−0.0564	No
Bartlett Regional Hospital	Juneau	0.0796	No
Central Peninsula General Hospital	Soldotna	0.5748	Yes
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital	Fairbanks	0.4022	Yes
Mat-Su Regional Medical Center	Palmer	−0.8863	No
Providence Alaska Medical Center	Anchorage	0.5634	Yes
Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Reg Hospital	Bethel	−1.4622	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. 50.0% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.2409, 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	1	126
−0.8	−0.6	0	204
−0.6	−0.4	0	290
−0.4	−0.2	0	357
−0.2	0.0	1	407
0.0	0.2	1	343
0.2	0.4	0	333
0.4	0.6	3	237
0.6	0.8	0	173
0.8	1.0	1	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 PSI 90 (100% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (17%).

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	7	100%
CLABSI	6	50%
CAUTI	6	50%
SSI	6	83%
CDI	8	63%
MRSA	6	17%

Alaska across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Alaska’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, Alaska has 1 cut hospital, about $380K 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

Alaska, year by year

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

Figure 5. Alaska’s share cut was above the nation’s in 11 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 7 of its 9 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	9	2	22.2%	21.9%
FY2016	9	3	33.3%	23.4%
FY2017	8	2	25.0%	24.0%
FY2018	8	2	25.0%	23.6%
FY2019	8	3	37.5%	25.0%
FY2020	8	5	62.5%	25.0%
FY2021	8	6	75.0%	24.9%
FY2022	8	5	62.5%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	8	2	25.0%	24.9%
FY2025	8	2	25.0%	24.8%
FY2026	8	4	50.0%	24.9%

Its metro areas

Hospitals CMS cut, of those with a payment decision, and the middle score, by place.

Place	With a decision	Hospitals cut	Share cut	Median score	Est. cut ($, modeled)
Anchorage, AK	4	2	50.0%	0.2535	$1.8M
Fairbanks-College, AK	1	1	100.0%	0.4022	$380K
Outside any metro area	3	1	33.3%	0.0796	$287K

Every hospital in Alaska

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

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Cite this page

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