SHARON HOSPITAL
50 HOSPITAL HILL ROAD, PO BOX 789 · SHARON, CT · 06069
vs. the regional median (the other ~300 NY/NJ/CT hospitals publishing the same code). How is this computed?
All-codes score: median of price ratios across every available billing code. Based on 19,347 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 14,046 codes) puts the score at 1.16x.
SHARON HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (1.06x overall). Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (3.11x, 160 codes); Inpatient is comparatively affordable (0.82x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.8x) with some outliers (9% above 3x)How A/B/C is determined: A = narrow price spread (IQR < 2.0×) with <5% of codes priced more than 3× the regional median. B = moderate (IQR 2.0–3.0× OR 5–20% above 3×). C = wider than that.
Cost by department
Each ratio compares this hospital's prices in that department to the median across NY/NJ/CT hospitals for the same department.
| Department | Ratio | Codes | % above median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 1.07x | 5,983 | 57% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 5,264 | 18% |
| Other | 2.68x | 4,426 | 84% |
| Lab | 1.37x | 1,716 | 94% |
| Inpatient | 0.82x | 771 | 0% |
| Imaging | 1.14x | 763 | 60% |
| Cardiac | 1.36x | 205 | 69% |
| Emergency/Eval | 3.11x | 160 | 95% |
| Therapy | 1.89x | 59 | 86% |
Hospital info
- Beds: 50
- Annual discharges: 1,123
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: median of price ratios across every available billing code. Validated against RAND Hospital Price Transparency Study v5.1 employer claims data at Spearman ρ = 0.73 (n = 105 hospitals).
Download the original transparency file from SHARON HOSPITAL.