GAYLORD HOSPITAL
50 GAYLORD FARM RD · WALLINGFORD, CT · 06492
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 53 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 53 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 8,029 codes) puts the score at 0.25x.
GAYLORD HOSPITAL bills below peers — about 0.47x the regional median. Within departments, Inpatient prices are notably high (2.47x, 740 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.18x). The wide price spread (C grade) means individual bills are hard to predict — a procedure priced near the median in one department may be 5x in another.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 5.0x) with 2% of codes above 3x the regional medianHow 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 | 0.18x | 5,831 | 0% |
| Other | 0.95x | 3,230 | 14% |
| Lab | 0.86x | 1,573 | 17% |
| Inpatient | 2.47x | 740 | 93% |
| Imaging | 0.53x | 655 | 4% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.92x | 601 | 4% |
| Cardiac | 0.34x | 200 | 11% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.81x | 149 | 25% |
| Therapy | 0.54x | 72 | 8% |
Hospital info
- Beds: 137
- Annual discharges: 1,283
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 53 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 GAYLORD HOSPITAL.