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Washington

CMS cut 12 of the 46 hospitals in Washington with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 26.1%, against 24.9% nationally.

Washington · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 46 with a payment decision

2Share cut

26.1%

+1.2 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

25th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.0723

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 46 scored (80%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$6.7M estimate

2.2% of the nation’s $306M, this site’s estimate

Likely range $5.4–7.5M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$59

The nation: $47

26% 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 Washington’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. Washington: 12 cut of 46 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
Astria Toppenish Hospital	Toppenish	0.9598	Yes
Capital Medical Center	Olympia	−0.1015	No
Cascade Valley Hospital	Arlington	1.3611	Yes
Confluence Health Hospital	Wenatchee	−0.0869	No
Deaconess Medical Center	Spokane	0.1043	No
Evergreenhealth Medical Center	Kirkland	−0.3875	No
Evergreenhealth Monroe	Monroe	0.3448	No
Grays Harbor Community Hospital	Aberdeen	−0.5496	No
Harborview Medical Center	Seattle	1.5608	Yes
Highline Medical Center	Burien	−0.2965	No
Island Hospital	Anacortes	0.2435	No
Kadlec Regional Medical Center	Richland	0.0986	No
Kaiser Permanente Central Hospital	Seattle	0.0453	No
Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center	Vancouver	0.5060	Yes
Multicare Auburn Medical Center	Auburn	−0.1230	No
Multicare Covington Medical Center	Covington	0.4894	Yes
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital	Puyallup	0.0926	No
Multicare Valley Hospital	Spokane Valley	−0.4169	No
Olympic Medical Center	Port Angeles	−0.3981	No
Overlake Hospital Medical Center & Clinics	Bellevue	0.5857	Yes
Peacehealth Southwest Medical Cente	Vancouver	0.0429	No
Peacehealth St John Medical Center	Longview	−0.3300	No
Peacehealth St Joseph Medical Center	Bellingham	−0.3308	No
Prov Sacred HRT Med Ctr & Childs Hosp.	Spokane	0.0855	No
Providence Centralia Hospital	Centralia	−0.1347	No
Providence Holy Family Hospital	Spokane	0.6757	Yes
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett	Everett	0.0025	No
Providence St Mary Medical Center	Walla Walla	−0.1921	No
Providence St Peter Hospital	Olympia	0.3406	No
Samaritan Hospital	Moses Lake	0.7255	Yes
Skagit Valley Hospital	Mount Vernon	0.6025	Yes
St Anthony Hospital	Gig Harbor	−0.9488	No
St Clare Hospital	Lakewood	−0.6750	No
St Francis Community Hospital	Federal Way	−0.4372	No
St Joseph Medical Center	Tacoma	−0.6681	No
St Michael Medical Center	Silverdale	−0.3366	No
Swedish Edmonds Hospital	Edmonds	0.0590	No
Swedish Issaquah	Issaquah	0.1054	No
Swedish Medical Center	Seattle	0.3055	No
Swedish Medical Center / Cherry Hill	Seattle	0.2676	No
Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital	Tacoma	0.4744	Yes
Trios Health	Kennewick	−0.3106	No
University of Washington Medical Ctr	Seattle	0.7996	Yes
Valley Medical Center	Renton	0.8737	Yes
Virginia Mason Medical Center	Seattle	−0.7265	No
Yakima Valley Memorial	Yakima	0.1866	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. 26.1% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.0723, 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	1	126
−0.8	−0.6	3	204
−0.6	−0.4	2	290
−0.4	−0.2	8	357
−0.2	0.0	5	407
0.0	0.2	9	343
0.2	0.4	6	333
0.4	0.6	3	237
0.6	0.8	4	173
0.8	1.0	3	116
1.0	1.2	0	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	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 CDI (69% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (23%).

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	46	52%
CLABSI	39	49%
CAUTI	42	60%
SSI	40	58%
CDI	45	69%
MRSA	39	23%

Washington across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Washington’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, Washington has 2 hospitals not cut, where a cut would have been about $1.1M.

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

Washington, year by year

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

Figure 5. Washington’s share cut was above the nation’s in 4 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 39 of its 50 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	48	17	35.4%	21.9%
FY2016	48	16	33.3%	23.4%
FY2017	49	15	30.6%	24.0%
FY2018	48	10	20.8%	23.6%
FY2019	47	9	19.1%	25.0%
FY2020	48	7	14.6%	25.0%
FY2021	48	6	12.5%	24.9%
FY2022	47	5	10.6%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	45	5	11.1%	24.9%
FY2025	46	8	17.4%	24.8%
FY2026	46	12	26.1%	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)
Bellingham, WA	1	0	0.0%	−0.3308	$0
Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	1	0	0.0%	−0.3366	$0
Everett, WA	4	1	25.0%	0.2019	$56K
Kennewick-Richland, WA	2	0	0.0%	−0.1060	$0
Longview-Kelso, WA	1	0	0.0%	−0.3300	$0
Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	2	1	50.0%	0.4230	$372K
Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	2	0	0.0%	0.1196	$0
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	17	8	47.1%	0.3761	$3.9M
Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA	14	5	35.7%	0.1865	$4.4M
Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	4	1	25.0%	0.0949	$257K
Tacoma-Lakewood, WA	5	1	20.0%	−0.6681	$1.1M
Walla Walla, WA	1	0	0.0%	−0.1921	$0
Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA	1	0	0.0%	−0.0869	$0
Yakima, WA	2	1	50.0%	0.5732	$16K
Outside any metro area	4	1	25.0%	−0.2664	$105K

Every hospital in Washington

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

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A penalty reflects how CMS’s formula scored relative performance; it is not a verdict on the quality of care.

Cite this page

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