State

Maine

CMS cut 4 of the 13 hospitals in Maine with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 30.8%, against 24.9% nationally.

Maine · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 13 with a payment decision

2Share cut

30.8%

+5.9 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

19th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.2356

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 13 scored (69%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$362K estimate

0.1% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $263–433K

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$18

The nation: $47

31% 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 Maine’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. Maine: 4 cut of 13 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
Cary Medical Center	Caribou	0.1920	No
Central Maine Medical Center	Lewiston	−0.2114	No
Maine General Medical Center	Augusta	−0.0580	No
Mainehealth Maine Medical Center	Portland	0.3624	No
Mainehealth Mid Coast Hospital	Brunswick	0.2356	No
Mainehealth Pen Bay Hospital	Rockport	−0.5470	No
Northern Light A R Gould Hospital	Presque Isle	0.7005	Yes
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center	Bangor	−0.2059	No
Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital	Ellsworth	0.4589	Yes
Northern Light Mercy Hospital	Portland	0.6656	Yes
St Joseph Hospital	Bangor	−0.0463	No
St Mary's Regional Medical Center	Lewiston	0.3592	No
York Hospital	York	1.0678	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. 30.8% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.2356, 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	0	204
−0.6	−0.4	1	290
−0.4	−0.2	0	357
−0.2	0.0	4	407
0.0	0.2	0	343
0.2	0.4	4	333
0.4	0.6	1	237
0.6	0.8	2	173
0.8	1.0	0	116
1.0	1.2	1	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 CAUTI (82% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (50%).

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	13	54%
CLABSI	10	60%
CAUTI	11	82%
SSI	13	54%
CDI	13	54%
MRSA	10	50%

Maine across the line

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

Figure 4. Of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Maine has 2 hospitals not cut, where a cut would have been about $1.8M.

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

Maine, year by year

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

Figure 5. Maine’s share cut was above the nation’s in 7 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 16 of its 18 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	18	6	33.3%	21.9%
FY2016	18	8	44.4%	23.4%
FY2017	17	3	17.6%	24.0%
FY2018	16	3	18.8%	23.6%
FY2019	17	4	23.5%	25.0%
FY2020	17	4	23.5%	25.0%
FY2021	17	9	52.9%	24.9%
FY2022	17	9	52.9%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	17	9	52.9%	24.9%
FY2025	16	7	43.8%	24.8%
FY2026	13	4	30.8%	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)
Bangor, ME	2	0	0.0%	−0.1261	$0
Lewiston-Auburn, ME	2	0	0.0%	0.0739	$0
Portland-South Portland, ME	4	2	50.0%	0.5140	$216K
Outside any metro area	5	2	40.0%	0.1920	$146K

Every hospital in Maine

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Every hospital in CMS’s file in Maine, 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. Maine: hospital-acquired conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/state/me/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.