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Connecticut

CMS cut 3 of the 25 hospitals in Connecticut with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 12.0%, against 24.9% nationally.

Connecticut · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 25 with a payment decision

2Share cut

12.0%

−12.9 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

45th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

−0.2172

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 25 scored (80%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$2.0M estimate

0.6% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $1.6–2.3M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$27

The nation: $47

12% 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 Connecticut’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. Connecticut: 3 cut of 25 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
Bridgeport Hospital	Bridgeport	0.0183	No
Bristol Hospital	Bristol	−0.0894	No
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital	Torrington	−0.3009	No
Danbury Hospital	Danbury	−0.4624	No
Day Kimball Hospital	Putnam	0.8686	Yes
Greenwich Hospital Association -	Greenwich	−0.1865	No
Griffin Hospital	Derby	0.2928	No
Hartford Hospital	Hartford	−0.5051	No
John Dempsey Hospital of the University of Connect	Farmington	0.4055	Yes
Johnson Memorial Hospital	Stafford Springs	−0.4116	No
Lawrence & Memorial Hospital	New London	0.1644	No
Manchester Memorial Hospital	Manchester	−0.8456	No
Middlesex Hospital	Middletown	−0.2172	No
Midstate Medical Center	Meriden	−0.9364	No
Norwalk Hospital	Norwalk	−0.1513	No
Rockville General Hospital	Vernon	N/A	No
Saint Mary's Hospital	Waterbury	−0.3660	No
Sharon Hospital	Sharon	−0.9044	No
St Francis Hospital & Medical Center	Hartford	0.4800	Yes
St Vincent's Medical Center	Bridgeport	−0.1636	No
Stamford Hospital	Stamford	−0.4464	No
The Connecticut Hospice Inc.	Branford	N/A	No
The Hospital of Central Connecticut	New Britain	−0.2623	No
Waterbury Hospital	Waterbury	0.0060	No
William W Backus Hospital	Norwich	−0.7782	No
Windham Community Memorial Hospital	Willimantic	−0.5100	No
Yale-New Haven Hospital	New Haven	−0.1193	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. 12.0% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.2172, 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	3	126
−0.8	−0.6	1	204
−0.6	−0.4	4	290
−0.4	−0.2	4	357
−0.2	0.0	6	407
0.0	0.2	3	343
0.2	0.4	1	333
0.4	0.6	2	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 CDI (56% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CAUTI (23%).

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	25	44%
CLABSI	21	29%
CAUTI	22	23%
SSI	22	45%
CDI	25	56%
MRSA	20	50%

Connecticut across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Connecticut’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, Connecticut has 1 cut hospital, about $889K 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

Connecticut, year by year

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

Figure 5. Connecticut’s share cut was above the nation’s in 7 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 26 of its 30 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	30	14	46.7%	21.9%
FY2016	30	18	60.0%	23.4%
FY2017	30	14	46.7%	24.0%
FY2018	30	15	50.0%	23.6%
FY2019	30	15	50.0%	25.0%
FY2020	30	14	46.7%	25.0%
FY2021	29	6	20.7%	24.9%
FY2022	29	8	27.6%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	28	5	17.9%	24.9%
FY2025	26	3	11.5%	24.8%
FY2026	25	3	12.0%	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)
Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	6	0	0.0%	−0.1750	$0
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	7	2	28.6%	−0.2623	$1.9M
New Haven, CT	2	0	0.0%	−0.5279	$0
Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	3	0	0.0%	−0.5100	$0
Waterbury-Shelton, CT	4	0	0.0%	−0.0417	$0
Outside any metro area	3	1	33.3%	−0.3009	$106K

Every hospital in Connecticut

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

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