State

Wisconsin

CMS cut 16 of the 62 hospitals in Wisconsin with a payment decision for fiscal year 2026: 25.8%, against 24.9% nationally.

Wisconsin · FY2026Compared with the nation

1Hospitals cut

Of 62 with a payment decision

2Share cut

25.8%

+0.9 pts vs the nation (24.9%)

3Rank

26th of 50

Share cut, highest first, among the states and DC

4Median score

0.0996

Nation: −0.0453

5Scored on all 6

Of 62 scored (60%; nation 66%)

6Scored without data

Hospitals CMS gave its worst score on a measure

7Estimated dollars

$4.3M estimate

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

Likely range $3.3–5.0M

8Per traditional Medicare stay

$43

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 Wisconsin’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. Wisconsin: 16 cut of 62 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
Ascension All Saints Hospital	Racine	0.0943	No
Ascension Columbia St Marys Hospital Milwaukee	Milwaukee	−0.0518	No
Ascension Ne Wisconsin - St Elizabeth Campus	Appleton	0.0515	No
Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital	Milwaukee	0.2283	No
Ascension St Francis Hospital	Milwaukee	−0.0992	No
Ascension Wisconsin Hosp Menomonee Falls Campus	Menomonee Falls	N/A	No
Aspirus Divine Savior Hospital	Portage	−0.2995	No
Aspirus Rhinelander Hospital	Rhinelander	0.8599	Yes
Aspirus Riverview Hospital & Clinics Inc	Wisconsin Rapids	0.5368	Yes
Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital & Clinics, Inc.	Stevens Point	0.2428	No
Aspirus Wausau Hospital	Wausau	0.0221	No
Aurora BayCare Medical Ctr	Green Bay	0.5010	Yes
Aurora Lakeland Medical Center	Elkhorn	0.2604	No
Aurora Medical Center	Grafton	0.2778	No
Aurora Medical Center - Summit	Summit	0.1682	No
Aurora Medical Center Bay Area	Marinette	0.7468	Yes
Aurora Medical Center Kenosha	Kenosha	0.6506	Yes
Aurora Medical Center Sheboygan County	Sheboygan	−0.6588	No
Aurora Medical Ctr Manitowoc County	Two Rivers	−0.5123	No
Aurora Medical Ctr Oshkosh	Oshkosh	0.5633	Yes
Aurora Medical Ctr Washington County	Hartford	0.1050	No
Aurora Memorial Hospital Burlington	Burlington	0.6344	Yes
Aurora St Lukes Medical Center	Milwaukee	0.5694	Yes
Bellin Memorial Hospital	Green Bay	0.5037	Yes
Beloit Health System	Beloit	−0.3002	No
Community Memorial Hospital	Menomonee Falls	−0.2960	No
Fort Memorial Hospital	Fort Atkinson	0.2036	No
Froedtert Community Hospital	New Berlin	N/A	No
Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital	Milwaukee	−0.1351	No
Froedtert South Inc.	Kenosha	0.8888	Yes
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center	La Crosse	−0.0374	No
Holy Family Memorial	Manitowoc	−0.7720	No
Howard Young Medical Center	Woodruff	0.1099	No
Marshfield Medical Center	Marshfield	0.7373	Yes
Marshfield Medical Center - Beaver Dam (MMC-BD)	Beaver Dam	−0.0839	No
Marshfield Medical Center - Eau Claire	Eau Claire	0.0111	No
Marshfield Medical Center - Minocqua	Minocqua	−0.0153	No
Marshfield Medical Center - Rice Lake	Rice Lake	0.3725	No
Marshfield Medical Center - River Region	Stevens Point	N/A	No
Marshfield Medical Center - Weston	Weston	0.4322	Yes
Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire Hospital	Eau Claire	−0.3779	No
Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Medical Center Inc	La Crosse	−0.7078	No
Mercy Health System Corp	Janesville	0.2230	No
Midwest Orthopedic Specialty Hospital	Franklin	−0.3350	No
Mile Bluff Medical Center	Mauston	1.0264	Yes
Oakleaf Surgical Hospital	Altoona	0.2008	No
Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital	Oconomowoc	−0.4288	No
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin	Glendale	−0.8045	No
Sauk Prairie Hospital	Prairie Du Sac	0.2996	No
SSM Health St Agnes Hospital-Fond Du LAC	Fond Du LAC	−0.6749	No
SSM Health St Clare Hospital - Baraboo	Baraboo	0.9284	Yes
SSM Health St Mary's Hospital - Janesville	Janesville	0.4894	Yes
SSM Health St Mary's Hospital - Madison	Madison	−0.3199	No
St Josephs Community Hospital West Bend	West Bend	−0.0287	No
St Marys Hospital Medical Ctr	Green Bay	0.3208	No
St Nicholas Hospital	Sheboygan	−0.4431	No
St Vincent Hospital	Green Bay	−0.3049	No
The Monroe Clinic	Monroe	−0.7513	No
Thedacare Regional Med Ctr - Neenah	Neenah	−0.4204	No
Thedacare Regional Medical Center - Appleton Inc	Appleton	−0.0268	No
UnityPoint Health - Meriter	Madison	0.1930	No
University of WI Hospitals & Clinics Authority	Madison	0.3436	No
Watertown Memorial Hospital	Watertown	−0.4265	No
Waukesha Memorial Hospital	Waukesha	−0.4077	No
West Allis Memorial Hospital	West Allis	0.5818	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. 25.8% of hospitals here scored past CMS’s line, against 24.9% nationally; the middle score here is 0.0996, 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	6	204
−0.6	−0.4	5	290
−0.4	−0.2	8	357
−0.2	0.0	7	407
0.0	0.2	8	343
0.2	0.4	12	333
0.4	0.6	7	237
0.6	0.8	5	173
0.8	1.0	3	116
1.0	1.2	1	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 CDI (76% of its hospitals above the national median); best on MRSA (27%).

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	48%
CLABSI	43	44%
CAUTI	44	57%
SSI	52	58%
CDI	59	76%
MRSA	37	27%

Wisconsin across the line

The nation’s hospitals within 0.05 of CMS’s line that this site estimates, Wisconsin’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, Wisconsin has 2 hospitals not cut, where a cut would have been about $2.4M.

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

Wisconsin, year by year

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

Figure 5. Wisconsin’s share cut was above the nation’s in 5 of the 11 years CMS cut anyone; 52 of its 69 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	65	18	27.7%	21.9%
FY2016	65	15	23.1%	23.4%
FY2017	66	11	16.7%	24.0%
FY2018	66	13	19.7%	23.6%
FY2019	66	15	22.7%	25.0%
FY2020	63	18	28.6%	25.0%
FY2021	64	13	20.3%	24.9%
FY2022	64	15	23.4%	25.0%
FY2023	0	0
FY2024	63	17	27.0%	24.9%
FY2025	63	18	28.6%	24.8%
FY2026	62	16	25.8%	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)
Appleton, WI	2	0	0.0%	0.0123	$0
Eau Claire, WI	3	0	0.0%	0.0111	$0
Fond du Lac, WI	1	0	0.0%	−0.6749	$0
Green Bay, WI	4	2	50.0%	0.4109	$534K
Janesville-Beloit, WI	3	1	33.3%	0.2230	$93K
Kenosha, WI	2	2	100.0%	0.7697	$511K
La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN	2	0	0.0%	−0.3726	$0
Madison, WI	5	0	0.0%	−0.2995	$0
Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	15	2	13.3%	−0.0518	$1.8M
Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	2	1	50.0%	0.0715	$106K
Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI	2	1	50.0%	0.3643	$90K
Sheboygan, WI	2	0	0.0%	−0.5510	$0
Wausau, WI	2	1	50.0%	0.2272	$139K
Outside any metro area	17	6	35.3%	0.2604	$959K

Every hospital in Wisconsin

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

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Cite this page

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