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Hawaii

CMS cut 7 of the 11 hospitals in Hawaii with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 63.6%, against 24.9% nationally.

Hawaii · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 11 with a payment decision

2Share cut

63.6%

+38.8 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

2nd of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.4619

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 11 scored (91%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$2.9M estimate

0.9% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $2.2–3.3M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$170

The nation: $47

64% 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 Hawaii’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. Hawaii: 7 cut of 11 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
Adventist Health Castle	Kailua	−0.8533	No
Hilo Benioff Medical Center	Hilo	0.0846	No
Kaiser Foundation Hospital	Honolulu	0.6129	Yes
Kona Community Hospital	Kealakekua	0.4619	Yes
Kuakini Medical Center	Honolulu	−0.1226	No
Maui Memorial Medical Center	Wailuku	1.1743	Yes
North Hawaii Community Hospital, Inc	Kamuela	1.7593	Yes
Pali Momi Medical Center	Aiea	−0.2614	No
Straub Clinic and Hospital	Honolulu	0.5682	Yes
The Queens Medical Center	Honolulu	0.8684	Yes
Wilcox Memorial Hospital	Lihue	0.4478	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. 63.6% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.4619, 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	1	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	1	343
0.2	0.4	0	333
0.4	0.6	3	237
0.6	0.8	1	173
0.8	1.0	1	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 CLABSI (73% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (30%).

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	11	64%
CLABSI	11	73%
CAUTI	11	73%
SSI	11	64%
CDI	11	73%
MRSA	10	30%

Hawaii, year by year

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

Figure 4. Hawaii’s share cut was above the nation’s in 4 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 10 of its 12 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	12	0	0.0%	21.9%
FY2016	12	3	25.0%	23.4%
FY2017	12	1	8.3%	24.0%
FY2018	12	1	8.3%	23.6%
FY2019	12	2	16.7%	25.0%
FY2020	12	1	8.3%	25.0%
FY2021	12	1	8.3%	24.9%
FY2022	12	0	0.0%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	12	3	25.0%	24.9%
FY2025	12	8	66.7%	24.8%
FY2026	11	7	63.6%	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)
Kahului-Wailuku, HI	1	1	100.0%	1.1743	$396K
Urban Honolulu, HI	6	3	50.0%	0.2228	$2.1M
Outside any metro area	4	3	75.0%	0.4549	$348K

Every hospital in Hawaii

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

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Cite this page

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