Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Plymouth
275 SANDWICH STREET · PLYMOUTH, MA · 02360
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 17,805 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 14,802 codes) puts the score at 1.13x.
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Plymouth bills above peers — about 1.28x the regional median. Within departments, Inpatient is the most expensive department (1.41x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
A nearby hospital 13.35 mi away is ~31% cheaper overall.
TOBEY HOSPITAL has an overall price level of 0.89x vs. this hospital's 1.28x, with 339 procedures in common.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.5x) with few outliers (2% 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 | 1.27x | 4,954 | 83% |
| Other | 1.22x | 3,970 | 73% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.29x | 3,798 | 62% |
| Inpatient | 1.41x | 2,168 | 64% |
| Lab | 1.36x | 1,734 | 86% |
| Imaging | 1.25x | 790 | 75% |
| Cardiac | 1.28x | 201 | 84% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.28x | 108 | 81% |
| Therapy | 1.12x | 82 | 65% |
Hospital info
- Beds: 151
- Annual discharges: 12,511
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 Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Plymouth.