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Kansas

CMS cut 10 of the 44 hospitals in Kansas with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 22.7%, against 24.9% nationally.

Kansas · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 44 with a payment decision

2Share cut

22.7%

−2.2 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

31st of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

−0.1856

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 44 scored (34%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$1.8M estimate

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

Likely range $1.4–2.1M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$25

The nation: $47

23% 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 Kansas’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. Kansas: 10 cut of 44 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 Ottawa	Ottawa	0.8966	Yes
AdventHealth Shawnee Mission	Shawnee Mission	0.4564	Yes
AdventHealth South Overland Park, Inc	Overland Park	−0.1152	No
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan, Inc	Manhattan	−0.9330	No
Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita, Inc.	Wichita	−0.0504	No
Ascentist Hospital LLC	Leawood	−0.1657	No
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City	Dodge City	−0.8290	No
Hays Medical Center	Hays	−0.4684	No
Hutchinson Regional Medical Center Inc	Hutchinson	−0.3188	No
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute	Leawood	−1.0172	No
Kansas Heart Hospital	Wichita	0.3418	No
Kansas Medical Center LLC	Andover	−0.3806	No
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital, LLC	Wichita	−1.3140	No
Kansas Surgery & Recovery Center	Wichita	−0.8513	No
Labette Health	Parsons	−0.2738	No
LMH	Lawrence	−0.9034	No
Manhattan Surgical Hospital LLC	Manhattan	−0.1497	No
McPherson Hospital	McPherson	0.6569	Yes
Menorah Medical Center	Overland Park	−0.1812	No
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg, Inc	Pittsburg	−0.8620	No
Mercy Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas	Galena	−0.5966	No
Miami County Medical Center	Paola	−0.7551	No
Minimally Invasive Surgery Hospital	Lenexa	−0.1207	No
NMC Health	Newton	−0.7685	No
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr	Overland Park	0.4059	Yes
Pratt Regional Medical Center	Pratt	−1.1694	No
Providence Medical Center	Kansas City	0.8049	Yes
Rock Regional Hospital, LLC	Derby	−0.8695	No
Saint John Hospital	Leavenworth	1.0547	Yes
Saint Luke's South Hospital	Overland Park	−0.2862	No
Salina Regional Health Center	Salina	0.5272	Yes
Salina Surgical Hospital	Salina	0.3882	Yes
Southwest Medical Center	Liberal	−0.1769	No
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City	Garden City	−0.5104	No
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills, LLC	Junction City	0.4403	Yes
Stormont Vail Hospital	Topeka	−0.0849	No
Summit Surgical, LLC	Hutchinson	−0.4862	No
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital	El Dorado	0.9890	Yes
University of Kansas Health System - St Francis Campus	Topeka	−0.1900	No
University of Kansas Health System Olathe Hospital	Olathe	−0.5275	No
University of Kansas Hospital	Kansas City	−0.0513	No
University of KS Hlth System Great Bend Campus	Great Bend	0.0044	No
Via Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa, Inc	Wichita	0.1808	No
Wesley Medical Center	Wichita	−0.5407	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. 22.7% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.1856, 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	1	17
−1.2	−1.0	2	51
−1.0	−0.8	6	126
−0.8	−0.6	2	204
−0.6	−0.4	6	290
−0.4	−0.2	4	357
−0.2	0.0	10	407
0.0	0.2	1	343
0.2	0.4	2	333
0.4	0.6	5	237
0.6	0.8	1	173
0.8	1.0	2	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 (45% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (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	43	33%
CLABSI	22	32%
CAUTI	23	35%
SSI	22	45%
CDI	36	44%
MRSA	15	27%

Kansas across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Kansas’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 Kansas’s: 2 cut, about $548K by this site’s estimate, and 1 not cut, where a cut would have been about $128K.

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

Kansas, year by year

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

Figure 5. Kansas’s share cut was above the nation’s in 1 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 34 of its 55 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	51	11	21.6%	21.9%
FY2016	52	10	19.2%	23.4%
FY2017	52	6	11.5%	24.0%
FY2018	51	7	13.7%	23.6%
FY2019	51	7	13.7%	25.0%
FY2020	50	10	20.0%	25.0%
FY2021	50	11	22.0%	24.9%
FY2022	47	12	25.5%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	45	8	17.8%	24.9%
FY2025	44	10	22.7%	24.8%
FY2026	44	10	22.7%	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)
Joplin, MO-KS	3	1	33.3%	0.1920	$588K
Kansas City, MO-KS	28	6	21.4%	−0.1180	$2.3M
Lawrence, KS	1	0	0.0%	−0.9034	$0
Manhattan, KS	3	1	33.3%	−0.1497	$22K
Topeka, KS	2	0	0.0%	−0.1375	$0
Wichita, KS	10	1	10.0%	−0.4607	$24K
Outside any metro area	14	4	28.6%	−0.2963	$562K

Every hospital in Kansas

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

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Cite this page

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