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Colorado

CMS cut 7 of the 49 hospitals in Colorado with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 14.3%, against 24.9% nationally.

Colorado · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 49 with a payment decision

2Share cut

14.3%

−10.6 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

41st of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

−0.1239

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 49 scored (63%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$2.1M estimate

0.7% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $1.6–2.5M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$28

The nation: $47

14% 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 Colorado’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. Colorado: 7 cut of 49 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
AdventHealth Avista	Louisville	−0.8129	No
AdventHealth Castle Rock	Castle Rock	−0.3618	No
AdventHealth Littleton	Littleton	0.2391	No
AdventHealth Parker	Parker	−0.0329	No
AdventHealth Porter	Denver	−0.4066	No
Animas Surgical Hospital, LLC	Durango	0.0225	No
Banner Fort Collins Medical Center	Fort Collins	0.2054	No
Banner North Co Medical Center - Loveland Campus	Loveland	0.2889	No
Banner North Colorado Medical Center	Greeley	0.2318	No
Boulder Community Health	Boulder	0.7062	Yes
Centura Health-Penrose St Francis Health Services	Colorado Springs	−0.3225	No
Centura Health-St Anthony Hospital	Lakewood	−0.0720	No
Centura Health-St Anthony North Health Campus	Westminster	−0.4541	No
Community Hospital	Grand Junction	0.6343	Yes
Delta County Memorial Hospital	Delta	−0.6758	No
Denver Health & Hospital Authority	Denver	0.3659	No
Good Samaritan Medical Center LLC	Lafayette	0.3822	Yes
HCA Healthone Mountain Ridge	Thornton	0.0988	No
HCA HealthOne Presbyterian St. Lukes	Denver	0.1701	No
HCA Healthone Rose	Denver	−0.7646	No
HCA-Healthone dba Swedish Medical Center	Englewood	−0.4831	No
Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital	Wheat Ridge	−0.1697	No
Intermountain Health Platte Valley Hospital	Brighton	−0.4367	No
Intermountain Health St. Mary's Regional Hospital	Grand Junction	−0.2306	No
Longmont United Hospital	Longmont	−0.9296	No
Longs Peak Hospital	Longmont	−0.0259	No
Medical Center of the Rockies	Loveland	0.4713	Yes
Mercy Regional Medical Center	Durango	−0.4539	No
Montrose Regional Health	Montrose	−0.1239	No
National Jewish Health	Denver	N/A	No
Orthocolorado Hosp at St Anthony Med Campus	Lakewood	−1.1900	No
Parkview Medical Center, Inc	Pueblo	0.2862	No
Poudre Valley Hospital	Fort Collins	−0.4561	No
Saint Joseph Hospital	Denver	−0.0708	No
San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center	Alamosa	−0.4364	No
Sky Ridge Medical Center	Lone Tree	0.1607	No
St Anthony Summit Medical Center	Frisco	−0.5297	No
St Elizabeth Hospital	Fort Morgan	1.0406	Yes
St Francis Hospital - Interquest	Colorado Springs	N/A	No
St Mary-Corwin Hospital	Pueblo	−0.2777	No
Sterling Regional Medcenter	Sterling	−0.8538	No
The Medical Center of Aurora & South Hospital	Aurora	0.5599	Yes
UCH-Memorial Health System	Colorado Springs	−0.1800	No
UCHealth Broomfield Hospital	Broomfield	−0.1444	No
UCHealth Grandview Hospital	Colorado Springs	−0.1132	No
UCHealth Greeley Hospital	Greeley	1.1260	Yes
UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital	Highlands Ranch	−0.5996	No
UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center	Steamboat Springs	−0.2706	No
University of Colorado Hospital Authority	Aurora	0.3637	No
Vail Health Hospital	Vail	−0.0843	No
Valley View Hospital Association	Glenwood Springs	−0.2538	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. 14.3% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.1239, 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	1	51
−1.0	−0.8	2	126
−0.8	−0.6	3	204
−0.6	−0.4	8	290
−0.4	−0.2	7	357
−0.2	0.0	10	407
0.0	0.2	4	343
0.2	0.4	7	333
0.4	0.6	3	237
0.6	0.8	2	173
0.8	1.0	0	116
1.0	1.2	2	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 SSI (52% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (26%).

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	49	51%
CLABSI	34	47%
CAUTI	35	49%
SSI	42	52%
CDI	46	43%
MRSA	31	26%

Colorado across the line

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

Figure 4. 3 of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates are Colorado’s: 1 cut, about $154K by this site’s estimate, and 2 not cut, where a cut would have been about $2.6M.

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

Colorado, year by year

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

Figure 5. Colorado’s share cut was above the nation’s in 4 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 39 of its 53 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	46	15	32.6%	21.9%
FY2016	45	7	15.6%	23.4%
FY2017	45	9	20.0%	24.0%
FY2018	46	15	32.6%	23.6%
FY2019	45	16	35.6%	25.0%
FY2020	45	16	35.6%	25.0%
FY2021	48	10	20.8%	24.9%
FY2022	48	11	22.9%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	49	8	16.3%	24.9%
FY2025	49	8	16.3%	24.8%
FY2026	49	7	14.3%	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)
Boulder, CO	5	2	40.0%	−0.0259	$555K
Colorado Springs, CO	3	0	0.0%	−0.1800	$0
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	20	1	5.0%	−0.1082	$507K
Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	4	1	25.0%	0.2471	$715K
Grand Junction, CO	2	1	50.0%	0.2018	$103K
Greeley, CO	2	1	50.0%	0.6789	$157K
Pueblo, CO	2	0	0.0%	0.0043	$0
Outside any metro area	11	1	9.1%	−0.2706	$35K

Every hospital in Colorado

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Colorado, 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. Colorado: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/state/co/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.