State

Arkansas

CMS cut 14 of the 39 hospitals in Arkansas with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 35.9%, against 24.9% nationally.

Arkansas · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 39 with a payment decision

2Share cut

35.9%

+11.0 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

15th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

−0.0371

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 39 scored (54%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$4.8M estimate

1.6% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $3.8–5.5M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$63

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 Arkansas’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. Arkansas: 14 cut of 39 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
Arkansas Heart Hospital-Encore	Bryant	−0.3278	No
Arkansas Heart Hospital, LLC	Little Rock	0.8514	Yes
Arkansas Methodist Medical Center	Paragould	0.1823	No
Arkansas Surgical Hospital	No Little Rock	−1.3638	No
Baptist Health - Fort Smith	Fort Smith	0.6501	Yes
Baptist Health - Van Buren	Van Buren	N/A	No
Baptist Health Medical Center North Little Rock	North Little Rock	−0.1074	No
Baptist Health Medical Center- Conway	Conway	0.6847	Yes
Baptist Health Medical Center-Drew County	Monticello	0.9995	Yes
Baptist Health Medical Center-Hot Springs County	Malvern	−0.7395	No
Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock	Little Rock	−0.1704	No
Baptist Health Medical Center-Stuttgart	Stuttgart	−0.0371	No
Baptist Memorial Hospital Jonesboro, Inc.	Jonesboro	0.4716	Yes
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden, Inc	West Memphis	N/A	No
Baxter Health	Mountain Home	−0.4455	No
Chambers Memorial Hospital	Danville	−1.4622	No
CHI St. Vincent Hospital Hot Springs	Hot Springs	−0.7337	No
CHI-St Vincent Infirmary	Little Rock	−0.3402	No
Conway Regional Medical Center, Inc	Conway	0.6640	Yes
Forrest City Medical Center	Forrest City	−0.7758	No
Great River Medical Center	Blytheville	−0.7971	No
Jefferson Regional Medical Center	Pine Bluff	0.9521	Yes
Johnson Regional Medical Center	Clarksville	−0.4015	No
Levi Hospital	Hot Springs	0.3548	No
Magnolia Regional Medical Center	Magnolia	0.2795	No
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith	Fort Smith	−0.4569	No
Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas	Rogers	−0.3273	No
National Park Medical Center	Hot Springs	0.2958	No
North Arkansas Regional Medical Center	Harrison	1.7451	Yes
Northwest Medical Center-Springdale	Springdale	0.0643	No
Ouachita County Medical Center	Camden	0.5972	Yes
Saline Memorial Hospital	Benton	−0.9512	No
Siloam Springs Regional Hospital	Siloam Springs	−0.1715	No
South Arkansas Regional Hospital LLC	El Dorado	0.5346	Yes
Southwest Regional Medical Center LLC	Hope	N/A	No
St Bernards Medical Center	Jonesboro	0.4531	Yes
St Marys Regional Medical Center	Russellville	0.3993	Yes
St Vincent Medical Center/North	Sherwood	−0.1938	No
Unity Health - Jacksonville	Jacksonville	N/A	No
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences	Little Rock	0.4933	Yes
Washington Regional Medical Center	Fayetteville	−0.2427	No
White County Medical Center	Searcy	−0.1343	No
White River Medical Center	Batesville	0.6746	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. 35.9% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.0371, 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	1	17
−1.2	−1.0	0	51
−1.0	−0.8	1	126
−0.8	−0.6	4	204
−0.6	−0.4	2	290
−0.4	−0.2	5	357
−0.2	0.0	6	407
0.0	0.2	1	343
0.2	0.4	4	333
0.4	0.6	5	237
0.6	0.8	5	173
0.8	1.0	2	116
1.0	1.2	1	91
1.2	1.4	0	30
1.4	1.6	0	21
1.6	1.8	1	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 SSI (74% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CAUTI (37%).

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	37	49%
CLABSI	25	48%
CAUTI	30	37%
SSI	23	74%
CDI	37	41%
MRSA	24	67%

Arkansas across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Arkansas’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, Arkansas has 1 cut hospital, about $113K 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

Arkansas, year by year

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

Figure 5. Arkansas’s share cut was above the nation’s in 4 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 39 of its 48 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	44	8	18.2%	21.9%
FY2016	44	9	20.5%	23.4%
FY2017	43	5	11.6%	24.0%
FY2018	43	9	20.9%	23.6%
FY2019	44	10	22.7%	25.0%
FY2020	45	10	22.2%	25.0%
FY2021	44	10	22.7%	24.9%
FY2022	43	13	30.2%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	39	13	33.3%	24.9%
FY2025	39	11	28.2%	24.8%
FY2026	39	14	35.9%	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)
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR	4	0	0.0%	−0.2071	$0
Fort Smith, AR-OK	3	2	66.7%	0.6501	$474K
Hot Springs, AR	2	0	0.0%	−0.2190	$0
Jonesboro, AR	2	2	100.0%	0.4624	$1.2M
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	11	4	36.4%	−0.1704	$2.2M
Memphis, TN-MS-AR	8	3	37.5%	0.0915	$2.7M
Outside any metro area	18	7	38.9%	0.2309	$942K

Every hospital in Arkansas

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

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A penalty reflects how CMS’s formula scored relative performance; it is not a verdict on the quality of care.

Cite this page

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