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Tennessee

CMS cut 14 of the 73 hospitals in Tennessee with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 19.2%, against 24.9% nationally.

Tennessee · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 73 with a payment decision

2Share cut

19.2%

−5.7 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

36th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

−0.2186

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 73 scored (59%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$7.2M estimate

2.4% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $5.8–8.1M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$47

The nation: $47

19% 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 Tennessee’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. Tennessee: 14 cut of 73 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
Affiliate of Vitruvian Health	Cleveland	0.2117	No
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital	Nashville	−0.2453	No
Baptist Memorial Hospital	Memphis	0.5660	Yes
Baptist Memorial Hospital - Carroll County	Huntingdon	−0.8968	No
Baptist Memorial Hospital Tipton	Covington	−1.4622	No
Baptist Memorial Hospital Union City	Union City	−0.3870	No
Blount Memorial Hospital	Maryville	0.0208	No
Claiborne Medical Center	Tazewell	−0.6043	No
Cookeville Regional Medical Center	Cookeville	0.5033	Yes
Cumberland Medical Center	Crossville	−0.3539	No
Dekalb Community Hospital	Smithville	N/A	No
Delta Specialty Hospital	Memphis	−1.4622	No
Dyersburg Regional Medical Center	Dyersburg	0.1941	No
Erlanger Medical Center	Chattanooga	0.2535	No
Fort Loudoun Medical Center	Lenoir City	−0.1683	No
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center	Knoxville	−0.6629	No
Franklin Woods Community Hospital	Johnson City	−0.2186	No
Greeneville Community Hospital	Greeneville	0.1925	No
Hardin Medical Center	Savannah	0.1548	No
Hawkins County Memorial Hospital	Rogersville	N/A	No
Haywood County Community Hospital	Brownsville	2.1717	Yes
Henderson County Community Hospital	Lexington	−1.3904	No
Highpoint Health-Sumner With Ascension Saint Thoma	Gallatin	0.2861	No
Indian Path Community Hospital	Kingsport	−1.0670	No
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital	Jackson	0.2007	No
Johnson City Medical Center	Johnson City	0.7814	Yes
Lafollette Medical Center	La Follette	−0.2545	No
Leconte Medical Center	Sevierville	−0.3076	No
Lincoln Medical Center	Fayetteville	−0.2274	No
Livingston Regional Hospital	Livingston	0.8076	Yes
Maury Regional Hospital	Columbia	0.1211	No
Memorial Healthcare System, Inc	Chattanooga	−0.4789	No
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis	Memphis	−0.1512	No
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge	Oak Ridge	−0.3364	No
Metro Nashville General Hospital	Nashville	−0.0818	No
Morristown Hamblen Hospital Association	Morristown	−0.2186	No
Parkridge Medical Center	Chattanooga	−0.3255	No
Parkwest Medical Center	Knoxville	−0.5214	No
Physicians Regional Medical Center	Powell	−0.8488	No
Regional One Health	Memphis	0.1505	No
Roane Medical Center	Harriman	−0.2536	No
Saint Francis Bartlett Medical Center	Bartlett	0.6053	Yes
Saint Thomas Highlands Hospital	Sparta	0.0036	No
Saint Thomas Hospital for Spinal Surgery	Nashville	N/A	Yes
Saint Thomas River Park Hospital	McMinnville	−0.4022	No
Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital	Murfreesboro	−0.2670	No
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrence	Lawrenceburg	0.9941	Yes
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Pulaski	Pulaski	−0.3800	No
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchest	Winchester	0.1915	No
St Francis Hospital	Memphis	0.0324	No
Starr Regional Medical Center Athens	Athens	−0.1093	No
Stones River Hospital	Woodbury	N/A	No
Sweetwater Hospital Association	Sweetwater	1.0761	Yes
Sycamore Shoals Hospital	Elizabethton	0.9218	Yes
Tennova Healthcare - Newport Medical Center	Newport	−0.5535	No
Tennova Healthcare-Jefferson Memorial Hospital	Jefferson City	−0.3378	No
Tristar Centennial Medical Center	Nashville	−0.7388	No
Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center	Hendersonville	−0.8045	No
Tristar Horizon Medical Center	Dickson	−1.0804	No
Tristar Northcrest Medical Center	Springfield	−1.1363	No
Tristar Skyline Medical Center	Nashville	−0.2761	No
Tristar Southern Hills Medical Center	Nashville	−0.5608	No
Tristar Stonecrest Medical Center	Smyrna	−1.0607	No
Tristar Summit Medical Center	Hermitage	−0.4757	No
Trustpoint Hospital	Murfreesboro	N/A	No
Unity Medical Center	Manchester	−0.8408	No
University Health System, Inc	Knoxville	0.3062	No
Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital	Shelbyville	0.3942	Yes
Vanderbilt Clarksville Hospital	Clarksville	0.3721	No
Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital	Tullahoma	0.5531	Yes
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Nashville	0.5042	Yes
Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital	Lebanon	−0.2759	No
Volunteer Community Hospital	Martin	0.8216	Yes
Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center	Bristol	−0.1675	No
Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center	Kingsport	0.7462	Yes
West Tennessee Healthcare Henry County Hospital	Paris	0.2593	No
West Tennessee Healthcare Milan Hospital	Milan	−0.9898	No
Williamson Medical Center	Franklin	−0.0100	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. 19.2% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is −0.2186, 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	4	51
−1.0	−0.8	4	126
−0.8	−0.6	3	204
−0.6	−0.4	6	290
−0.4	−0.2	17	357
−0.2	0.0	5	407
0.0	0.2	7	343
0.2	0.4	10	333
0.4	0.6	5	237
0.6	0.8	2	173
0.8	1.0	4	116
1.0	1.2	2	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	1	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 MRSA (64% of its hospitals above the national median); best on CDI (34%).

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	69	42%
CLABSI	50	46%
CAUTI	61	34%
SSI	51	43%
CDI	68	34%
MRSA	45	64%

Tennessee across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Tennessee’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 Tennessee’s: 1 cut, about $62K by this site’s estimate, and 1 not cut, where a cut would have been about $287K.

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

Tennessee, year by year

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

Figure 5. Tennessee’s share cut was above the nation’s in 2 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 69 of its 95 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	92	14	15.2%	21.9%
FY2016	91	16	17.6%	23.4%
FY2017	91	13	14.3%	24.0%
FY2018	89	24	27.0%	23.6%
FY2019	88	20	22.7%	25.0%
FY2020	84	21	25.0%	25.0%
FY2021	84	22	26.2%	24.9%
FY2022	80	11	13.8%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	73	15	20.5%	24.9%
FY2025	76	16	21.1%	24.8%
FY2026	73	14	19.2%	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)
Chattanooga, TN-GA	3	0	0.0%	−0.3255	$0
Clarksville, TN-KY	2	1	50.0%	0.7201	$96K
Cleveland, TN	1	0	0.0%	0.2117	$0
Jackson, TN	2	0	0.0%	−0.3946	$0
Johnson City, TN	3	2	66.7%	0.7814	$819K
Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA	4	1	25.0%	−0.0998	$504K
Knoxville, TN	9	0	0.0%	−0.2545	$0
Memphis, TN-MS-AR	8	3	37.5%	0.0915	$2.7M
Morristown, TN	2	0	0.0%	−0.2782	$0
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	16	1	6.3%	−0.2760	$2.9M
Outside any metro area	27	8	29.6%	0.0036	$942K

Every hospital in Tennessee

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

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Cite this page

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