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Louisiana

CMS cut 25 of the 76 hospitals in Louisiana with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 32.9%, against 24.9% nationally.

Louisiana · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 76 with a payment decision

2Share cut

32.9%

+8.0 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

18th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.0583

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 76 scored (41%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$4.8M estimate

1.6% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $3.8–5.6M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$54

The nation: $47

33% 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 Louisiana’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. Louisiana: 25 cut of 76 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
Abbeville General Hospital	Abbeville	0.9802	Yes
Acadia General Hospital	Crowley	0.2331	No
Acadian Medical Center	Eunice	0.5523	Yes
Alexandria Hospital	Alexandria	N/A	No
Allen Parish Hospital	Kinder	N/A	No
Avala	Covington	−0.5763	No
Avoyelles Hospital	Marksville	1.0201	Yes
Baton Rouge General Medical Center	Baton Rouge	−0.2896	No
Beauregard Memorial Hospital	Deridder	−0.3808	No
Byrd Regional Hospital	Leesville	−0.7271	No
Caldwell Memorial Hospital, Inc	Columbia	N/A	No
CHRISTUS Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital	Alexandria	−0.3943	No
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital	Lake Charles	−1.1253	No
CHRISTUS Ochsner St Patrick Hospital	Lake Charles	−0.0037	No
CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier Health System	Shreveport	−0.1423	No
CHRISTUS St Frances Cabrini Hospital	Alexandria	0.2281	No
Citizens Medical Center	Columbia	1.0969	Yes
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center	Homer	0.4372	Yes
Cypress Pointe Surgical Hospital	Hammond	−0.3735	No
Desoto Regional Health System	Mansfield	N/A	No
East Carroll Parish Hospital	Lake Providence	N/A	No
East Jefferson General Hospital	Metairie	0.1087	No
FMOL Health St Francis	Monroe	0.0306	No
Franklin Medical Center	Winnsboro	−0.7720	No
Glenwood Regional Medical Center	West Monroe	0.4529	Yes
Iberia Medical Center	New Iberia	−0.0024	No
Lafayette Surgical Specialty Hospital	Lafayette	−0.3562	No
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital	Lake Charles	0.5971	Yes
Lane Regional Medical Center	Zachary	−0.5503	No
Lasalle General Hospital	Jena	1.2869	Yes
Leonard J Chabert Medical Center	Houma	0.4763	Yes
Mercy Regional Medical Center	Ville Platte	−0.3492	No
Minden Medical Center	Minden	0.5556	Yes
Monroe Surgical Hospital	Monroe	0.1501	No
Morehouse General Hospital	Bastrop	2.1931	Yes
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center	Natchitoches	−0.0477	No
New Orleans East Hospital	New Orleans	−0.3985	No
North Oaks Medical Center	Hammond	0.3790	No
Northern Louisiana Medical Center	Ruston	0.0432	No
Oakdale Community Hospital	Oakdale	−0.9040	No
Ochsner American Legion Hospital	Jennings	−0.2910	No
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center	Lafayette	0.4896	Yes
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe	Monroe	0.1843	No
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport	Shreveport	0.5647	Yes
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport-St Mary Medical Cent	Shreveport	−0.4597	No
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge	Baton Rouge	−0.2526	No
Ochsner Medical Center Acute	New Orleans	0.1411	No
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner	Kenner	−0.7542	No
Ochsner St Mary	Morgan City	0.7081	Yes
Ochsner University Hospital and Clinics	Lafayette	0.8185	Yes
Omega Hospital, LLC	Metairie	N/A	No
Opelousas General Health System	Opelousas	0.1523	No
Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Inc	Lafayette	0.0778	No
Our Lady of the Angels Hospital	Bogalusa	0.1540	No
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center	Baton Rouge	0.0734	No
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital	Slidell	−0.4487	No
Park Place Surgical Hospital	Lafayette	−0.4152	No
Physicians Medical Center	Houma	1.1080	Yes
Rapides Regional Medical Center	Alexandria	0.3123	No
Richardson Medical Center	Rayville	0.4606	Yes
Sabine Medical Center	Many	0.0256	No
Savoy Medical Center	Mamou	−0.7713	No
Slidell Memorial Hospital	Slidell	0.6876	Yes
Specialists Hospital Shreveport	Shreveport	−1.2218	No
Springhill Medical Center	Springhill	0.3887	Yes
St Bernard Parish Hospital	Chalmette	−1.4622	No
St Charles Parish Hospital	Luling	−0.7298	No
St Charles Surgical Hospital	New Orleans	−0.2426	No
St Tammany Parish Hospital	Covington	−0.3807	No
Sterling Surgical Hospital	Slidell	−0.2682	No
Surgical Specialty Center of Baton Rouge	Baton Rouge	−0.0682	No
Terrebonne General Medical Center - Parish	Houma	−0.3349	No
The General	Baton Rouge	−1.2888	No
The Spine Hospital of Louisiana	Baton Rouge	−0.9691	No
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center	Thibodaux	0.5504	Yes
Touro Infirmary	New Orleans	0.2224	No
University Medical Center New Orleans	New Orleans	0.7992	Yes
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital	Sulphur	0.5753	Yes
West Jefferson Medical Center	Marrero	−0.3497	No
Willis Knighton Medical Center	Shreveport	0.7661	Yes
Winn Parish Medical Center	Winnfield	2.1931	Yes
Womans Hospital	Baton Rouge	0.6160	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. 32.9% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.0583, 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	1	40
−1.4	−1.2	2	17
−1.2	−1.0	1	51
−1.0	−0.8	2	126
−0.8	−0.6	5	204
−0.6	−0.4	4	290
−0.4	−0.2	15	357
−0.2	0.0	3	407
0.0	0.2	12	343
0.2	0.4	6	333
0.4	0.6	11	237
0.6	0.8	5	173
0.8	1.0	2	116
1.0	1.2	4	91
1.2	1.4	1	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	2	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 MRSA (71% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CDI (44%).

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	68	57%
CLABSI	41	59%
CAUTI	49	53%
SSI	45	60%
CDI	62	44%
MRSA	34	71%

Louisiana across the line

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

Figure 4. 2 of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates are Louisiana’s: 1 cut, about $20K by this site’s estimate, and 1 not cut, where a cut would have been about $295K.

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

Louisiana, year by year

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

Figure 5. Louisiana’s share cut was above the nation’s in 8 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 72 of its 100 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	93	11	11.8%	21.9%
FY2016	90	20	22.2%	23.4%
FY2017	89	22	24.7%	24.0%
FY2018	89	25	28.1%	23.6%
FY2019	88	27	30.7%	25.0%
FY2020	83	27	32.5%	25.0%
FY2021	81	25	30.9%	24.9%
FY2022	81	15	18.5%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	78	23	29.5%	24.9%
FY2025	78	28	35.9%	24.8%
FY2026	76	25	32.9%	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)
Alexandria, LA	3	0	0.0%	0.2281	$0
Baton Rouge, LA	8	1	12.5%	−0.2711	$21K
Hammond, LA	2	0	0.0%	0.0028	$0
Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA	4	3	75.0%	0.5134	$202K
Lafayette, LA	7	3	42.9%	0.2331	$947K
Lake Charles, LA	5	2	40.0%	−0.0037	$422K
Monroe, LA	6	3	50.0%	0.3186	$227K
New Orleans-Metairie, LA	10	1	10.0%	−0.2962	$597K
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA	5	2	40.0%	−0.1423	$1.9M
Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA	5	1	20.0%	−0.3807	$286K
Outside any metro area	21	9	42.9%	0.1523	$261K

Every hospital in Louisiana

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

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Cite this page

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