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Mississippi

CMS cut 18 of the 50 hospitals in Mississippi with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 36.0%, against 24.9% nationally.

Mississippi · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 50 with a payment decision

2Share cut

36.0%

+11.1 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

14th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.1923

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 50 scored (48%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$5.8M estimate

1.9% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $4.6–6.5M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$76

The nation: $47

36% 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 Mississippi’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. Mississippi: 18 cut of 50 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
Alliance Health Center	Meridian	−1.4597	No
Alliance Healthcare System, Inc	Holly Springs	N/A	No
Anderson Regional Medical Center	Meridian	0.9050	Yes
Anderson Regional Medical Center South Campus	Meridian	−1.4622	No
Baptist Memorial Hospital Booneville	Booneville	0.9923	Yes
Baptist Memorial Hospital Desoto	Southaven	0.5171	Yes
Baptist Memorial Hospital North MS	Oxford	−0.1555	No
Baptist Memorial Hospital Union County	New Albany	0.3129	No
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Oktibbeha County	Starkville	−0.7016	No
Beacham Memorial Hospital	Magnolia	2.1717	Yes
BMH-Golden Triangle	Columbus	0.3324	No
Bolivar Medical Center	Cleveland	−0.5969	No
Choctaw Health Center	Philadelphia	N/A	No
Clay County Medical Corporation	West Point	0.2053	No
Crossgates River Oaks Hospital	Brandon	0.1138	No
Delta Health System - The Medical Center	Greenville	−1.2378	No
Forrest General Hospital	Hattiesburg	0.4714	Yes
George Regional Health System	Lucedale	−0.8383	No
Greenwood Leflore Hospital	Greenwood	0.5583	Yes
Highland Community Hospital	Picayune	1.1977	Yes
Highland Hills Medical Center	Senatobia	N/A	No
Jasper General Hospital	Bay Springs	N/A	No
King's Daughters Medical Center-Brookhaven	Brookhaven	−0.4853	No
Magee General Hospital	Magee	1.1360	Yes
Magnolia Regional Health Center	Corinth	0.2833	No
Marion General Hospital	Columbia	2.1931	Yes
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport	Gulfport	−0.1479	No
Memorial Hospital Biloxi	Biloxi	−0.4842	No
Merit Health Central	Jackson	−0.4157	No
Merit Health Madison	Canton	−0.8557	No
Merit Health Natchez	Natchez	0.7414	Yes
Merit Health River Oaks	Flowood	0.1369	No
Merit Health River Region	Vicksburg	−0.3332	No
Merit Health Wesley	Hattiesburg	0.1793	No
Merit Health Women's Hospital	Flowood	−0.9731	No
Methodist Healthcare - Olive Branch Hospital	Olive Branch	−0.9232	No
Mississippi Baptist Medical Center	Jackson	1.0526	Yes
Mississippi Methodist Rehab Ctr	Jackson	N/A	No
Neshoba County General Hospital	Philadelphia	N/A	No
North Mississippi Medical Center	Tupelo	0.5942	Yes
North Mississippi Medical Center-Gilmore Amory	Amory	0.0360	No
Northwest Missississippi Regional Medical Center	Clarksdale	−1.1243	No
Ochsner Medical Center-Hancock	Bay Saint Louis	−0.5271	No
Ochsner Rush Hospital	Meridian	−0.2519	No
Progressive Health Group of Houston	Houston	N/A	No
Singing River Gulfport	Gulfport	0.0595	No
Singing River Health System	Pascagoula	−0.1287	No
South Central Reg Med Ctr	Laurel	0.7563	Yes
South Sunflower County Hospital	Indianola	−0.4224	No
Southwest MS Regional Medical Center	McComb	0.3263	No
St Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital	Jackson	0.2219	No
Tishomingo Health Services Inc	Iuka	0.4390	Yes
University of Mississippi Med Center	Jackson	0.6118	Yes
University of Mississippi Medical Center- Grenada	Grenada	1.0817	Yes
Wayne General Hospital	Waynesboro	1.2130	Yes
Webster General Hospital/ Swing Bed	Eupora	0.2106	No
Whitfield Medical Surgical Hospital	Whitfield	N/A	No
Winston Medical Center	Louisville	1.3838	Yes
Yalobusha General Hospital	Water Valley	N/A	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. 36.0% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.1923, 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	2	40
−1.4	−1.2	1	17
−1.2	−1.0	1	51
−1.0	−0.8	4	126
−0.8	−0.6	1	204
−0.6	−0.4	5	290
−0.4	−0.2	3	357
−0.2	0.0	3	407
0.0	0.2	5	343
0.2	0.4	7	333
0.4	0.6	4	237
0.6	0.8	4	173
0.8	1.0	1	116
1.0	1.2	4	91
1.2	1.4	2	30
1.4	1.6	1	21
1.6	1.8	0	10
1.8	2.0	0	3
2.0	2.2	1	13
2.2	2.4	1	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 (65% of its hospitals above the national median); best on SSI (38%).

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	41	49%
CLABSI	30	63%
CAUTI	36	53%
SSI	29	38%
CDI	48	56%
MRSA	26	65%

Mississippi across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Mississippi’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, Mississippi has 1 hospital not cut, where a cut would have been about $377K.

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

Mississippi, year by year

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

Figure 5. Mississippi’s share cut was above the nation’s in 6 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 50 of its 65 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	61	12	19.7%	21.9%
FY2016	60	9	15.0%	23.4%
FY2017	60	14	23.3%	24.0%
FY2018	62	19	30.6%	23.6%
FY2019	62	17	27.4%	25.0%
FY2020	61	13	21.3%	25.0%
FY2021	59	19	32.2%	24.9%
FY2022	60	18	30.0%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	50	16	32.0%	24.9%
FY2025	50	11	22.0%	24.8%
FY2026	50	18	36.0%	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)
Gulfport-Biloxi, MS	5	0	0.0%	−0.1479	$0
Hattiesburg, MS	2	1	50.0%	0.3254	$974K
Jackson, MS	9	3	33.3%	0.1369	$2.2M
Memphis, TN-MS-AR	8	3	37.5%	0.0915	$2.7M
Outside any metro area	32	13	40.6%	0.2981	$2.0M

Every hospital in Mississippi

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