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Montana

CMS cut 4 of the 10 hospitals in Montana with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 40.0%, against 24.9% nationally.

Montana · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 10 with a payment decision

2Share cut

40.0%

+15.1 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

10th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.0472

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 10 scored (70%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$1.1M estimate

0.4% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $836K–$1.3M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$46

The nation: $47

40% 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 Montana’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. Montana: 4 cut of 10 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
Benefis Hospitals Inc	Great Falls	−0.1060	No
Billings Clinic Hospital	Billings	−0.6233	No
Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital	Bozeman	0.5081	Yes
Community Medical Center	Missoula	−0.0623	No
Great Falls Clinic Hospital	Great Falls	0.1567	No
Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital	Billings	−0.1567	No
Logan Health Medical Center	Kalispell	0.4948	Yes
P H S Indian Hospital at Browning - Blackfeet	Browning	N/A	No
St James Hospital	Butte	0.7304	Yes
St Peters Health	Helena	0.7430	Yes
St. Patrick Hospital	Missoula	−0.1864	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. 40.0% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.0472, 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	1	204
−0.6	−0.4	0	290
−0.4	−0.2	0	357
−0.2	0.0	4	407
0.0	0.2	1	343
0.2	0.4	0	333
0.4	0.6	2	237
0.6	0.8	2	173
0.8	1.0	0	116
1.0	1.2	0	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 PSI 90 (70% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CLABSI (25%).

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	10	70%
CLABSI	8	25%
CAUTI	10	40%
SSI	9	44%
CDI	10	60%
MRSA	9	33%

Montana, year by year

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

Figure 4. Montana’s share cut was above the nation’s in 3 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 10 of its 14 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	13	3	23.1%	21.9%
FY2016	13	5	38.5%	23.4%
FY2017	13	0	0.0%	24.0%
FY2018	13	1	7.7%	23.6%
FY2019	13	2	15.4%	25.0%
FY2020	14	1	7.1%	25.0%
FY2021	13	2	15.4%	24.9%
FY2022	12	3	25.0%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	11	2	18.2%	24.9%
FY2025	10	1	10.0%	24.8%
FY2026	10	4	40.0%	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)
Billings, MT	2	0	0.0%	−0.3900	$0
Bozeman, MT	1	1	100.0%	0.5081	$293K
Great Falls, MT	2	0	0.0%	0.0254	$0
Helena, MT	1	1	100.0%	0.7430	$223K
Missoula, MT	2	0	0.0%	−0.1244	$0
Outside any metro area	2	2	100.0%	0.6126	$572K

Every hospital in Montana

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

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Cite this page

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