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Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Plymouth
275 SANDWICH STREET · PLYMOUTH, MA · 02360 · Acute Care Hospitals
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 17,806 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 1.15x.
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Plymouth bills above peers — about 1.30x the regional median. Within departments, Lab is the most expensive department (1.38x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
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 | 1.29x | 4,954 | 86% |
| Other | 1.25x | 3,970 | 70% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.29x | 3,799 | 61% |
| Inpatient | 1.28x | 2,168 | 64% |
| Lab | 1.38x | 1,734 | 86% |
| Imaging | 1.24x | 790 | 74% |
| Cardiac | 1.30x | 201 | 86% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.25x | 108 | 83% |
| Therapy | 1.26x | 82 | 72% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 151
- Annual discharges: 12,511
- CMS overall quality star rating: 4/5
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.