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Massachusetts

CMS cut 20 of the 52 hospitals in Massachusetts with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 38.5%, against 24.9% nationally.

Massachusetts · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 52 with a payment decision

2Share cut

38.5%

+13.6 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

11th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.2735

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 52 scored (81%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$15.0M estimate

4.9% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $11.9–17.1M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$68

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 Massachusetts’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. Massachusetts: 20 cut of 52 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
Adcare Hospital of Worcester Inc	Worcester	−0.2492	No
Anna Jaques Hospital	Newburyport	0.2495	No
Baystate Franklin Medical Center	Greenfield	−0.5169	No
Baystate Medical Center	Springfield	0.6795	Yes
Baystate Noble Hospital	Westfield	0.9593	Yes
Baystate Wing Hospital	Palmer	−0.0112	No
Berkshire Medical Center	Pittsfield	−0.1864	No
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton	Milton	0.8808	Yes
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham	Needham	0.4598	Yes
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Plymouth	Plymouth	0.3598	No
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Boston	0.4969	Yes
Boston Medical Center	Boston	0.3543	No
Boston Medical Center-Brighton	Brighton	−0.2950	No
Brigham and Women Faulkner Hospital	Jamaica Plain	0.4149	Yes
Brigham and Women's Hospital	Boston	0.2131	No
Brown University Health Morton Hospital	Taunton	0.0481	No
Cambridge Health Alliance	Cambridge	0.6458	Yes
Cape Cod Hospital	Hyannis	0.3499	No
Carney Hospital	Boston	N/A	No
Cooley Dickinson Hospital Inc,the	Northampton	1.2717	Yes
Emerson Hospital -	W Concord	−0.5169	No
Falmouth Hospital	Falmouth	0.7823	Yes
Good Samaritan Medical Center	Brockton	−0.4605	No
Heywood Hospital -	Gardner	0.4187	Yes
Holy Family Hospital	Methuen	−0.0166	No
Holyoke Medical Center	Holyoke	−0.3215	No
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington	Burlington	0.2976	No
Lowell General Hospital	Lowell	1.0519	Yes
Marlborough Hospital	Marlborough	0.5125	Yes
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary -	Boston	1.0946	Yes
Massachusetts General Hospital	Boston	0.1843	No
Melrosewakefield Healthcare	Melrose	−0.1710	No
Mercy Medical Ctr	Springfield	−0.0432	No
Merrimack Health Lawrence Hospital	Lawrence	−0.2448	No
Metrowest Medical Center	Framingham	0.5504	Yes
Milford Regional Medical Center	Milford	−0.3243	No
Mount Auburn Hospital	Cambridge	0.3468	No
Nantucket Cottage Hospital	Nantucket	N/A	No
Nashoba Valley Medical Center	Ayer	0.3424	No
New England Baptist Hospital	Boston	0.5280	Yes
Newton-Wellesley Hospital	Newton	−0.2052	No
North Shore Medical Center -	Salem	0.1330	No
Northeast Hospital Corporation	Beverly	0.7231	Yes
Norwood Hospital	Norwood	N/A	No
Saint Anne's Hospital	Fall River	−0.2349	No
Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital	Brockton	0.5174	Yes
South Shore Hospital	South Weymouth	0.5827	Yes
Southcoast Hospitals Group	Fall River	0.1958	No
St Vincent Hospital	Worcester	−0.2422	No
Sturdy Memorial Hospital	Attleboro	−0.7003	No
Tufts Medical Center	Boston	1.1000	Yes
UMass Memorial Health - Harrington Hospital	Southbridge	−0.6878	No
UMass Memorial Healthalliance Hospitals	Leominster	0.6587	Yes
UMass Memorial Medical Center/University Campus	Worcester	0.0177	No
Winchester Hospital	Winchester	−0.3854	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. 38.5% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.2735, 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	2	204
−0.6	−0.4	3	290
−0.4	−0.2	8	357
−0.2	0.0	4	407
0.0	0.2	5	343
0.2	0.4	10	333
0.4	0.6	8	237
0.6	0.8	5	173
0.8	1.0	3	116
1.0	1.2	3	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	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 CDI (77% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (41%).

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	50	62%
CLABSI	47	55%
CAUTI	47	74%
SSI	42	55%
CDI	52	77%
MRSA	46	41%

Massachusetts across the line

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

Figure 4. 7 of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates are Massachusetts’s: 2 cut, about $673K by this site’s estimate, and 5 not cut, where a cut would have been about $4.7M.

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

Massachusetts, year by year

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

Figure 5. Massachusetts’s share cut was above the nation’s in 6 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 48 of its 57 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	57	12	21.1%	21.9%
FY2016	57	12	21.1%	23.4%
FY2017	57	16	28.1%	24.0%
FY2018	56	9	16.1%	23.6%
FY2019	55	11	20.0%	25.0%
FY2020	55	13	23.6%	25.0%
FY2021	55	18	32.7%	24.9%
FY2022	55	17	30.9%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	54	19	35.2%	24.9%
FY2025	53	19	35.8%	24.8%
FY2026	52	20	38.5%	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)
Amherst Town-Northampton, MA	1	1	100.0%	1.2717	$289K
Barnstable Town, MA	2	1	50.0%	0.5661	$413K
Boston, MA	15	9	60.0%	0.4598	$8.5M
Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA	15	5	33.3%	0.2495	$2.5M
Pittsfield, MA	1	0	0.0%	−0.1864	$0
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	14	2	14.3%	−0.1307	$654K
Springfield, MA	5	2	40.0%	−0.0112	$2.9M
Worcester, MA	7	2	28.6%	−0.2422	$498K
Outside any metro area	2	0	0.0%	−0.0873	$0

Every hospital in Massachusetts

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

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A penalty reflects how CMS’s formula scored relative performance; it is not a verdict on the quality of care.

Cite this page

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