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South Carolina

CMS cut 12 of the 51 hospitals in South Carolina with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 23.5%, against 24.9% nationally.

South Carolina · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 51 with a payment decision

2Share cut

23.5%

−1.3 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

30th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

−0.1589

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 51 scored (61%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$4.6M estimate

1.5% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $3.6–5.2M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$37

The nation: $47

24% 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 South Carolina’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. South Carolina: 12 cut of 51 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
Aiken Regional Medical Center	Aiken	−0.1938	No
Anmed Health	Anderson	−0.3858	No
Beaufort County Memorial Hospital	Beaufort	0.8178	Yes
Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital	Charleston	0.4749	Yes
Cannon Memorial Hospital	Pickens	−0.7382	No
Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center	Hartsville	0.2040	No
Cherokee Medical Center	Gaffney	1.0808	Yes
Coastal Carolina Hospital	Hardeeville	−0.6711	No
Colleton Medical Center	Walterboro	0.2564	No
Conway Medical Center	Conway	0.0710	No
Grand Strand Regional Medical Center	Myrtle Beach	−0.1984	No
Hampton Regional Medical Center	Varnville	1.0814	Yes
Kershawhealth	Camden	0.2572	No
Lexington Medical Center	West Columbia	−0.5967	No
McLeod Health Cheraw	Cheraw	−0.5110	No
McLeod Health Clarendon	Manning	−0.0881	No
McLeod Loris Hospital	Loris	−0.1946	No
McLeod Medical Center - Dillon	Dillon	−0.6919	No
McLeod Regional Medical Center-Pee Dee	Florence	0.3316	No
Mount Pleasant Hospital	Mount Pleasant	0.1894	No
MUSC Health Chester Medical Center	Chester	−0.7018	No
MUSC Health Columbia Medical Center Downtown	Columbia	0.3823	Yes
MUSC Health Florence Medical Center	Florence	0.7806	Yes
MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center	Lancaster	−0.3119	No
MUSC Health Marion Medical Center	Mullins	2.1931	Yes
MUSC Medical Center	Charleston	0.8381	Yes
Newberry County Memorial Hospital	Newberry	−0.6000	No
Novant Health East Cooper Medical Center	Mount Pleasant	−0.8134	No
Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center	Hilton Head Island	0.2148	No
Pelham Medical Center	Greer	−0.4166	No
Piedmont Medical Center	Rock Hill	−0.1602	No
Prisma Health Baptist	Columbia	−0.5081	No
Prisma Health Baptist Easley Hospital	Easley	0.8485	Yes
Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge	Columbia	0.6603	Yes
Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital	Greenville	−0.1589	No
Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital	Spartanburg	−1.0053	No
Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital	Simpsonville	1.2167	Yes
Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital	Clinton	−0.3289	No
Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital	Seneca	−0.2610	No
Prisma Health Patewood Hospital	Greenville	−1.1067	No
Prisma Health Richland Hospital	Columbia	0.2967	No
Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital	Sumter	−0.6471	No
Roper Hospital	Charleston	−0.1159	No
Roper St Francis Hospital-Berkeley Inc	Summerville	−0.0214	No
Self Regional Healthcare	Greenwood	−0.3852	No
Spartanburg Medical Center	Spartanburg	−0.3424	No
St Francis-Downtown	Greenville	−0.1941	No
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital	Georgetown	0.3113	No
Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital	Murrells Inlet	−0.7546	No
Trident Medical Center	Charleston	0.0391	No
Union Medical Center	Union	1.4729	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. 23.5% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.1589, 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	1	51
−1.0	−0.8	1	126
−0.8	−0.6	7	204
−0.6	−0.4	4	290
−0.4	−0.2	7	357
−0.2	0.0	9	407
0.0	0.2	2	343
0.2	0.4	8	333
0.4	0.6	2	237
0.6	0.8	1	173
0.8	1.0	4	116
1.0	1.2	2	91
1.2	1.4	1	30
1.4	1.6	1	21
1.6	1.8	0	10
1.8	2.0	0	3
2.0	2.2	0	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 (58% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CLABSI (41%).

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	49	45%
CLABSI	37	41%
CAUTI	42	52%
SSI	44	50%
CDI	51	41%
MRSA	33	58%

South Carolina across the line

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

Figure 4. 2 of the nation’s 141 hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates are South Carolina’s: 1 cut, about $450K by this site’s estimate, and 1 not cut, where a cut would have been about $1.0M.

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

South Carolina, year by year

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

Figure 5. South Carolina’s share cut was above the nation’s in 9 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 48 of its 60 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	55	13	23.6%	21.9%
FY2016	56	16	28.6%	23.4%
FY2017	52	16	30.8%	24.0%
FY2018	52	14	26.9%	23.6%
FY2019	54	14	25.9%	25.0%
FY2020	53	19	35.8%	25.0%
FY2021	53	20	37.7%	24.9%
FY2022	52	20	38.5%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	50	13	26.0%	24.9%
FY2025	51	11	21.6%	24.8%
FY2026	51	12	23.5%	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)
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	6	1	16.7%	−0.1723	$1.0M
Charleston-North Charleston, SC	7	2	28.6%	0.0391	$3.0M
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	19	1	5.3%	−0.1602	$149K
Columbia, SC	6	2	33.3%	0.2770	$616K
Florence, SC	3	1	33.3%	0.3316	$325K
Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	9	2	22.2%	−0.3289	$196K
Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC	3	1	33.3%	0.2148	$299K
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC	3	0	0.0%	−0.1946	$0
Spartanburg, SC	3	1	33.3%	−0.3424	$26K
Sumter, SC	1	0	0.0%	−0.6471	$0
Outside any metro area	12	3	25.0%	−0.1746	$86K

Every hospital in South Carolina

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

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