DANBURY HOSPITAL
24 HOSPITAL AVE · DANBURY, CT · 06810
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 21,119 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 14,396 codes) puts the score at 1.08x.
DANBURY HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (1.04x overall). Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (2.20x, 209 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.80x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.8x) with some outliers (5% 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 | 0.80x | 6,039 | 36% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 5,865 | 37% |
| Other | 1.38x | 5,338 | 73% |
| Lab | 1.13x | 1,762 | 81% |
| Inpatient | 1.77x | 816 | 98% |
| Imaging | 1.05x | 797 | 63% |
| Cardiac | 0.94x | 211 | 44% |
| Emergency/Eval | 2.20x | 209 | 94% |
| Therapy | 1.43x | 82 | 83% |
Hospital info
- Beds: 338
- Annual discharges: 17,390
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 DANBURY HOSPITAL.