UCONN JOHN DEMPSEY HOSPITAL
263 FARMINGTON AVE · FARMINGTON, CT · 06032
vs. the regional median (the other ~300 NY/NJ/CT hospitals publishing the same code). How is this computed?
High-confidence score: 10% trimmed mean across 10 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 10 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 6,256 codes) puts the score at 1.42x.
UCONN JOHN DEMPSEY HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 1.70x the regional median overall. Within departments, Inpatient is the most expensive department (1.42x); Lab is comparatively affordable (0.83x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
A nearby hospital 4.82 mi away is ~77% cheaper overall.
THE HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT has an overall price level of 0.39x vs. this hospital's 1.70x, with 912 procedures in common.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 2.0x) with few 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 0.89x | 10,839 | 37% |
| Surgery | 0.99x | 4,585 | 45% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.26x | 1,691 | 64% |
| Inpatient | 1.42x | 857 | 100% |
| Lab | 0.83x | 782 | 3% |
| Imaging | 0.95x | 337 | 37% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.40x | 131 | 84% |
| Cardiac | 0.87x | 89 | 32% |
| Therapy | 0.97x | 24 | 42% |
Hospital info
- Beds: 165
- Annual discharges: 11,300
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 10 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. 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 UCONN JOHN DEMPSEY HOSPITAL.