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New Jersey

CMS cut 5 of the 61 hospitals in New Jersey with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 8.2%, against 24.9% nationally.

New Jersey · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 61 with a payment decision

2Share cut

8.2%

−16.7 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

47th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

−0.1613

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 61 scored (89%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$4.2M estimate

1.4% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $3.3–4.7M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$19

The nation: $47

8% 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 Jersey’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 Jersey: 5 cut of 61 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
AHS Hospital Corp	Hackettstown	0.3148	No
Atlanticare Regional Medical Center - City Campus	Atlantic City	−0.0914	No
Bayshore Medical Center	Holmdel	−0.6258	No
Bergen New Bridge Medical Center	Paramus	−0.2460	No
Cape Regional Medical Center Inc	Cape May Court House	0.4502	Yes
Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell	Pennington	0.0313	No
Capital Health Regional Medical Center	Trenton	0.2805	No
Carepoint Health - Bayonne Medical Center	Bayonne	−0.4804	No
Carepoint Health-Hoboken University Medical Center	Hoboken	0.0903	No
Carewell Health Medical Center	East Orange	0.7148	Yes
Centrastate Medical Center	Freehold	−0.1571	No
Chilton Medical Center	Pompton Plains	−0.0550	No
Clara Maass Medical Center	Belleville	−0.6214	No
Community Medical Center	Toms River	−0.5852	No
Cooper University Hospital	Camden	1.2454	Yes
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center	Livingston	−0.3448	No
Deborah Heart and Lung Center	Browns Mills	−0.1407	No
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center	Englewood	0.0745	No
Hackensack Meridian Health Pascack Valley Medical	Westwood	−1.0951	No
Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical	Montclair	0.0621	No
Hackensack University Medical Center	Hackensack	−0.2762	No
Heights University Hospital	Jersey City	0.2710	No
Holy Name Medical Center	Teaneck	−1.1244	No
Hudson Regional Hospital	Secaucus	0.2808	No
Hunterdon Medical Center	Flemington	−0.0043	No
Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill	Elmer	−0.1963	No
Inspira Medical Center Vineland	Vineland	−0.2808	No
Jefferson Stratford Hospital	Stratford	0.2904	No
Jersey City Medical Center	Jersey City	0.0644	No
Jersey Shore University Medical Center	Neptune	0.0601	No
JFK University Medical Center	Edison	0.1003	No
Monmouth Medical Center	Long Branch	−0.7301	No
Monmouth Medical Center-Southern Campus	Lakewood	−0.5546	No
Morristown Medical Center	Morristown	−0.4582	No
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center	Newark	−0.2395	No
Newton Medical Center	Newton	−0.3656	No
Ocean Medical Center	Brick	0.0162	No
Overlook Medical Center	Summit	−0.4445	No
Palisades Medical Center	North Bergen	0.3342	No
Raritan Bay Medical Center	Perth Amboy	−0.3256	No
Riverview Medical Center	Red Bank	−0.1364	No
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital	New Brunswick	0.2232	No
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset	Somerville	−0.0900	No
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton	Hamilton	−0.5491	No
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway	Rahway	−0.3461	No
Saint Clare's Hospital/ Denville Campus	Denville	0.5496	Yes
Saint Michael's Medical Center	Newark	−0.4521	No
Saint Peter's University Hospital	New Brunswick	−0.5369	No
Shore Medical Center	Somers Point	−0.0814	No
Southern Ocean Medical Center	Manahawkin	−0.2089	No
St Joseph's University Medical Center Inc	Paterson	−0.4557	No
St Luke's Warren Hospital	Phillipsburg	−0.1917	No
St Mary's General Hospital	Passaic	−0.5603	No
The University Hospital	Newark	0.2325	No
Trinitas Regional Medical Center	Elizabeth	−0.7689	No
University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro	Plainsboro	−0.3708	No
Valley Hospital	Paramus	0.6467	Yes
Virtua Mount Holly Hospital	Mount Holly	−0.2206	No
Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital	Camden	−0.1613	No
Virtua Willingboro Hospital	Willingboro	0.3684	No
West Jersey Hospital	Voorhees	−0.3827	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. 8.2% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.1613, 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	2	51
−1.0	−0.8	0	126
−0.8	−0.6	4	204
−0.6	−0.4	10	290
−0.4	−0.2	11	357
−0.2	0.0	11	407
0.0	0.2	9	343
0.2	0.4	9	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	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 PSI 90 (51% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CDI (33%).

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	61	51%
CLABSI	60	35%
CAUTI	61	39%
SSI	56	38%
CDI	61	33%
MRSA	59	47%

New Jersey across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, New Jersey’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 Jersey has 2 hospitals not cut, where a cut would have been about $473K.

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 Jersey, year by year

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

Figure 5. New Jersey’s share cut was above the nation’s in 7 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 57 of its 64 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	63	23	36.5%	21.9%
FY2016	64	21	32.8%	23.4%
FY2017	64	26	40.6%	24.0%
FY2018	64	15	23.4%	23.6%
FY2019	64	19	29.7%	25.0%
FY2020	64	20	31.3%	25.0%
FY2021	63	21	33.3%	24.9%
FY2022	63	18	28.6%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	63	13	20.6%	24.9%
FY2025	61	7	11.5%	24.8%
FY2026	61	5	8.2%	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)
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	7	0	0.0%	−0.6834	$0
Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	3	1	33.3%	−0.0814	$284K
Camden, NJ	7	1	14.3%	−0.1407	$1.9M
Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ	15	0	0.0%	−0.2089	$0
New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ	59	17	28.8%	0.0745	$18.1M
Newark, NJ	15	2	13.3%	−0.3448	$628K
Trenton-Princeton, NJ	3	0	0.0%	0.0313	$0
Vineland, NJ	1	0	0.0%	−0.2808	$0
Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ	3	0	0.0%	−0.2591	$0

Every hospital in New Jersey

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

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Cite this page

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