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Kentucky

CMS cut 21 of the 56 hospitals in Kentucky with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 37.5%, against 24.9% nationally.

Kentucky · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 56 with a payment decision

2Share cut

37.5%

+12.6 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

13th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.1861

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 56 scored (61%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$8.8M estimate

2.9% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $7.1–9.8M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$88

The nation: $47

38% 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 Kentucky’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. Kentucky: 21 cut of 56 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
AdventHealthManchester	Manchester	0.4460	Yes
Baptist Health Corbin	Corbin	0.2333	No
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville	Madisonville	−0.3353	No
Baptist Health Hardin	Elizabethtown	0.4031	Yes
Baptist Health Lagrange	La Grange	−0.0692	No
Baptist Health Lexington	Lexington	0.2194	No
Baptist Health Louisville	Louisville	0.1084	No
Baptist Health Paducah	Paducah	0.5755	Yes
Baptist Health Richmond	Richmond	−0.8727	No
Bourbon Community Hospital	Paris	N/A	No
CHI Saint Joseph Flaget Memorial Hospital	Bardstown	0.5378	Yes
Clark Regional Medical Center	Winchester	−1.0072	No
Deaconess Henderson Hospital	Henderson	−0.0870	No
Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center	Danville	0.3383	No
Frankfort Regional Medical Center	Frankfort	−0.7662	No
Georgetown Community Hospital	Georgetown	0.1743	No
Harlan ARH Hospital	Harlan	0.5562	Yes
Harrison Memorial Hospital	Cynthiana	−0.1056	No
Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center	Hazard	0.5086	Yes
Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center	Prestonsburg	0.4116	Yes
Jackson Purchase Medical Center	Mayfield	1.0693	Yes
Jennie Stuart Medical Center	Hopkinsville	1.0681	Yes
King's Daughters' Medical Center	Ashland	0.5316	Yes
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital	Somerset	−0.2727	No
Meadowview Regional Medical Center	Maysville	−0.2068	No
Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital	Paducah	0.1966	No
Middlesboro ARH Hospital	Middlesboro	0.1133	No
Monroe County Medical Center	Tompkinsville	1.6665	Yes
Murray-Calloway County Hospital	Murray	0.3966	Yes
Norton Hospitals, Inc	Louisville	0.4739	Yes
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital	Greenville	0.1128	No
Owensboro Health Regional Hospital	Owensboro	0.1925	No
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center	Leitchfield	0.2749	No
Paintsville ARH Hospital	Paintsville	−0.8061	No
Pikeville Medical Center	Pikeville	1.0519	Yes
Pineville Community Health Center, Inc	Pineville	N/A	No
Rockcastle County Hospital, Inc.	Mount Vernon	1.1268	Yes
Saint Joseph East	Lexington	−0.8469	No
Saint Joseph Hospital	Lexington	−0.2718	No
Saint Joseph London	London	−0.3937	No
Saint Joseph Mount Sterling	Mount Sterling	1.0215	Yes
Spring View Hospital	Lebanon	−0.7900	No
St Claire Regional Medical Center	Morehead	0.0396	No
St Elizabeth Edgewood	Edgewood	0.1806	No
St Elizabeth Florence	Florence	−0.1041	No
St Elizabeth Ft Thomas	Fort Thomas	−0.0730	No
T J Samson Community Hospital	Glasgow	−1.0950	No
Taylor Regional Hospital	Campbellsville	1.2645	Yes
The Medical Center (Bowling Green)	Bowling Green	0.5805	Yes
The Medical Center at Russellville	Russellville	0.1916	No
Three Rivers Medical Center	Louisa	−0.6938	No
TJ Health Columbia	Columbia	N/A	No
Tristar Greenview Regional Hospital	Bowling Green	0.1739	No
Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center	South Williamson	−0.3108	No
University of Kentucky Hospital	Lexington	0.3966	Yes
University of Louisville Hospital	Louisville	0.7073	Yes
UOFL HEALTH - JEWISH HOSPITAL and Mary & Elizabeth Hospital	Louisville	0.6917	Yes
UofL Health - Shelbyville Hospital	Shelbyville	−0.2788	No
Whitesburg ARH Hospital	Whitesburg	−0.5670	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. 37.5% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.1861, 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	3	126
−0.8	−0.6	4	204
−0.6	−0.4	1	290
−0.4	−0.2	6	357
−0.2	0.0	6	407
0.0	0.2	7	343
0.2	0.4	7	333
0.4	0.6	11	237
0.6	0.8	3	173
0.8	1.0	0	116
1.0	1.2	5	91
1.2	1.4	1	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 (71% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CAUTI (42%).

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	55	64%
CLABSI	38	71%
CAUTI	43	42%
SSI	40	58%
CDI	56	45%
MRSA	36	69%

Kentucky across the line

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

Figure 4. 5 of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates are Kentucky’s: 4 cut, about $2.2M by this site’s estimate, and 1 not cut, where a cut would have been about $195K.

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

Kentucky, year by year

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

Figure 5. Kentucky’s share cut was above the nation’s in 7 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 50 of its 66 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	65	10	15.4%	21.9%
FY2016	65	9	13.8%	23.4%
FY2017	64	11	17.2%	24.0%
FY2018	64	17	26.6%	23.6%
FY2019	64	19	29.7%	25.0%
FY2020	64	18	28.1%	25.0%
FY2021	62	12	19.4%	24.9%
FY2022	61	20	32.8%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	60	22	36.7%	24.9%
FY2025	59	21	35.6%	24.8%
FY2026	56	21	37.5%	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)
Bowling Green, KY	2	1	50.0%	0.3772	$628K
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	17	1	5.9%	−0.0730	$38K
Clarksville, TN-KY	2	1	50.0%	0.7201	$96K
Elizabethtown, KY	1	1	100.0%	0.4031	$388K
Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH	4	2	50.0%	0.3921	$1.2M
Lexington-Fayette, KY	6	1	16.7%	−0.0487	$1.6M
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	10	4	40.0%	0.2257	$4.0M
Owensboro, KY	1	0	0.0%	0.1925	$0
Paducah, KY-IL	2	1	50.0%	0.3861	$395K
Outside any metro area	31	11	35.5%	0.1133	$1.2M

Every hospital in Kentucky

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

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Cite this page

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