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New Hampshire

CMS cut 5 of the 13 hospitals in New Hampshire with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 38.5%, against 24.9% nationally.

New Hampshire · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 13 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

−0.0970

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 13 scored (85%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$3.7M estimate

1.2% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $2.9–4.3M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$103

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 New Hampshire’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. New Hampshire: 5 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
Catholic Medical Center	Manchester	0.8005	Yes
Cheshire Medical Center	Keene	−0.2955	No
Concord Hospital	Concord	0.0318	No
Concord Hospital- Laconia	Laconia	0.7231	Yes
Elliot Hospital	Manchester	0.6443	Yes
Exeter Hospital Inc	Exeter	−0.2266	No
Frisbie Memorial Hospital	Rochester	−0.0970	No
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital	Lebanon	0.4187	Yes
Parkland Medical Center	Derry	−0.1871	No
Portsmouth Regional Hospital	Portsmouth	−0.6976	No
Southern NH Medical Center	Nashua	0.3958	Yes
St Joseph Hospital	Nashua	−0.6098	No
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital	Dover	−0.3456	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 −0.0970, 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	1	290
−0.4	−0.2	3	357
−0.2	0.0	2	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	1	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 CAUTI (92% of its hospitals above the national median); best on SSI (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	13	54%
CLABSI	12	33%
CAUTI	12	92%
SSI	12	25%
CDI	13	46%
MRSA	11	45%

New Hampshire across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, New Hampshire’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, New Hampshire has 2 cut hospitals, about $2.4M by this site’s estimate.

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

New Hampshire, year by year

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

Figure 5. New Hampshire’s share cut was above the nation’s in 7 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 11 of its 13 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	2	15.4%	23.4%
FY2017	13	4	30.8%	24.0%
FY2018	13	2	15.4%	23.6%
FY2019	13	5	38.5%	25.0%
FY2020	13	5	38.5%	25.0%
FY2021	13	4	30.8%	24.9%
FY2022	13	6	46.2%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	13	1	7.7%	24.9%
FY2025	13	2	15.4%	24.8%
FY2026	13	5	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)
Manchester-Nashua, NH	4	3	75.0%	0.5201	$1.4M
Rockingham County-Strafford County, NH	5	0	0.0%	−0.2266	$0
Outside any metro area	4	2	50.0%	0.2253	$2.3M

Every hospital in New Hampshire

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

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Cite this page

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