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District of Columbia

CMS cut 1 of the 6 hospitals in District of Columbia with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 16.7%, against 24.9% nationally.

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

District of Columbia · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 6 with a payment decision

2Share cut

16.7%

−8.2 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

38th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.0432

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 6 scored (83%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$390K estimate

0.1% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $297–490K

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$19

The nation: $47

17% 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 District of Columbia’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. District of Columbia: 1 cut of 6 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
George Washington Univ Hospital	Washington	0.3419	No
Howard University Hospital Corp	Washington	0.5994	Yes
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital	Washington	0.0306	No
MedStar Washington Hospital Center	Washington	−0.3612	No
Sibley Memorial Hospital	Washington	0.0558	No
United Medical Center	Washington	−0.1729	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. 16.7% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.0432, 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	0	126
−0.8	−0.6	0	204
−0.6	−0.4	0	290
−0.4	−0.2	1	357
−0.2	0.0	1	407
0.0	0.2	2	343
0.2	0.4	1	333
0.4	0.6	0	237
0.6	0.8	1	173
0.8	1.0	0	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 CLABSI (67% of its hospitals above the national median); best on SSI (40%).

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	6	50%
CLABSI	6	67%
CAUTI	6	50%
SSI	5	40%
CDI	6	67%
MRSA	6	67%

District of Columbia across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, District of Columbia’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, District of Columbia has 1 hospital not cut, where a cut would have been about $1.1M.

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

District of Columbia, year by year

Every hospital in District of Columbia 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 District of Columbia’s hospitals cut that year, then the nation’s.

Figure 5. District of Columbia’s share cut was above the nation’s in 8 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 6 of its 7 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	7	5	71.4%	21.9%
FY2016	7	5	71.4%	23.4%
FY2017	7	2	28.6%	24.0%
FY2018	7	3	42.9%	23.6%
FY2019	7	3	42.9%	25.0%
FY2020	6	3	50.0%	25.0%
FY2021	6	3	50.0%	24.9%
FY2022	6	3	50.0%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	6	1	16.7%	24.9%
FY2025	6	1	16.7%	24.8%
FY2026	6	1	16.7%	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)
Washington, DC-MD	6	1	16.7%	0.0306	$390K

Every hospital in District of Columbia

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

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Cite this page

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