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Arizona

CMS cut 12 of the 61 hospitals in Arizona with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 19.7%, against 24.9% nationally.

Arizona · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 61 with a payment decision

2Share cut

19.7%

−5.2 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

35th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.0560

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 61 scored (61%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$5.0M estimate

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

Likely range $4.0–5.5M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$37

The nation: $47

20% 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 Arizona’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. Arizona: 12 cut of 61 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
Abrazo Arrowhead Hospital	Glendale	−0.7282	No
Abrazo Central Campus	Phoenix	−0.6584	No
Abrazo Scottsdale Campus	Phoenix	−0.5216	No
Abrazo West Campus	Goodyear	−0.1125	No
Arizona Orthopedic and Surgical Specialty Hospital	Phoenix	−0.0434	No
Arizona Spine and Joint Hospital	Mesa	−0.8110	No
Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix	Phoenix	0.4478	Yes
Banner - University Medical Center Tucson Campus	Tucson	0.3012	No
Banner Baywood Medical Center	Mesa	0.1540	No
Banner Boswell Medical Center	Sun City	0.6573	Yes
Banner Casa Grande Medical Center	Casa Grande	0.4417	Yes
Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center	Sun City West	−0.1281	No
Banner Desert Medical Center	Mesa	0.4090	Yes
Banner Estrella Medical Center	Phoenix	0.2939	No
Banner Gateway Medical Center	Gilbert	0.2048	No
Banner Goldfield Medical Center	Apache Junction	−1.4622	No
Banner Heart Hospital	Mesa	0.7449	Yes
Banner Ironwood Medical Center	Queen Creek	0.1049	No
Banner Ocotillo Medical Center	Chandler	−0.4846	No
Banner Thunderbird Medical Center	Glendale	0.0991	No
Banner-University Medical Center South Campus	Tucson	0.3505	No
Canyon Vista Medical Center	Sierra Vista	−0.4993	No
Chandler Regional Medical Center	Chandler	−0.1918	No
Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility	Chinle	−0.1268	No
City of Hope Cancer Center Phoenix	Goodyear	−0.5670	No
Dignity Health - Arizona General Hospital	Laveen	N/A	No
Dignity Health Arizona General Hospital	Mesa	0.4311	Yes
East Valley Er & Hospital	Gilbert	2.1966	Yes
Exceptional Community Hospital - Maricopa	Maricopa	N/A	No
Exceptional Community Hospital Bullhead City	Bullhead City	N/A	No
Exceptional Community Hospital Yuma	Yuma	2.1717	Yes
Flagstaff Medical Center	Flagstaff	−0.6616	No
Fort Defiance Indian Hospital	Ft. Defiance	0.9890	Yes
Havasu Regional Medical Center	Lake Havasu City	−0.4643	No
Honor Health John C. Lincoln Medical Center	Phoenix	0.3289	No
HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center	Phoenix	0.2475	No
HonorHealth Four Peaks Medical Center	Mesa	−0.4955	No
HonorHealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center	Scottsdale	0.0746	No
HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center	Scottsdale	0.3178	No
HonorHealth Scottsdale Thompson Peak Med Ctr	Scottsdale	0.2242	No
HonorHealth Sonoran Crossing Medical Center	Phoenix	−0.4163	No
HonorHealth Tempe Medical Center	Phoenix	−0.5916	No
Kingman Regional Medical Center	Kingman	−0.4005	No
Mayo Clinic Hospital	Phoenix	−0.0274	No
Mercy Gilbert Medical Center	Gilbert	0.1207	No
Northwest Medical Center	Tucson	−0.8103	No
Northwest Medical Center Sahuarita	Sahuarita	−0.3421	No
Oro Valley Hospital	Oro Valley	0.0245	No
Phoenix Indian Medical Center	Phoenix	0.3662	No
Sells Hospital	Sells	2.1717	Yes
St Joseph's Hospital	Tucson	−0.9114	No
St Josephs Hospital and Medical Center	Phoenix	0.1597	No
St. Mary's Hospital	Tucson	−0.2762	No
Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center	Show Low	0.3808	Yes
The Core Institute Specialty Hosp	Phoenix	−1.0835	No
Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation	Tuba City	0.2381	No
Tucson Medical Center	Tucson	0.5559	Yes
Valley View Medical Center	Fort Mohave	0.1998	No
Valleywise Health Medical Center	Phoenix	0.0560	No
Verde Valley Medical Center	Cottonwood	−0.0941	No
Western Arizona Regional Medical Center	Bullhead City	−0.8268	No
Whiteriver PHS Indian Hospital	Whiteriver	−1.4622	No
Yavapai Regional Medical Center	Prescott	−0.1259	No
Yuma Regional Medical Center	Yuma	0.1542	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. 19.7% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.0560, 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	2	40
−1.4	−1.2	0	17
−1.2	−1.0	1	51
−1.0	−0.8	2	126
−0.8	−0.6	5	204
−0.6	−0.4	7	290
−0.4	−0.2	4	357
−0.2	0.0	8	407
0.0	0.2	9	343
0.2	0.4	11	333
0.4	0.6	6	237
0.6	0.8	2	173
0.8	1.0	0	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	2	13
2.2	2.4	1	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 (64% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CAUTI (27%).

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	56	57%
CLABSI	46	43%
CAUTI	48	27%
SSI	45	53%
CDI	56	64%
MRSA	40	50%

Arizona across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Arizona’s in full ink: scores a hair apart, money all or nothing.

Figure 4. 4 of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates are Arizona’s: 2 cut, about $1.1M by this site’s estimate, and 2 not cut, where a cut would have been about $246K.

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

Arizona, year by year

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

Figure 5. Arizona’s share cut was above the nation’s in 2 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 52 of its 72 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	61	13	21.3%	21.9%
FY2016	61	16	26.2%	23.4%
FY2017	61	15	24.6%	24.0%
FY2018	60	14	23.3%	23.6%
FY2019	61	15	24.6%	25.0%
FY2020	59	11	18.6%	25.0%
FY2021	59	10	16.9%	24.9%
FY2022	60	11	18.3%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	60	10	16.7%	24.9%
FY2025	62	9	14.5%	24.8%
FY2026	61	12	19.7%	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)
Flagstaff, AZ	2	0	0.0%	−0.2118	$0
Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ	4	0	0.0%	−0.4324	$0
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	37	7	18.9%	0.0991	$3.4M
Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ	2	0	0.0%	−0.1100	$0
Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ	1	0	0.0%	−0.4993	$0
Tucson, AZ	9	2	22.2%	0.0245	$1.2M
Yuma, AZ	2	1	50.0%	1.1630	$13K
Outside any metro area	4	2	50.0%	0.1270	$345K

Every hospital in Arizona

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

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