LOWELL GENERAL - SAINTS CAMPUS

1 HOSPITAL DRIVE · LOWELL, MA · 01852

0.85x Below peers

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 837 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 831 codes) puts the score at 0.85x.

LOWELL GENERAL - SAINTS CAMPUS bills below peers — about 0.85x the regional median. The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.

8% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability A (Predictable)

why?

Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.1x) with few outliers (0% 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.

Limited coverage: This hospital's published transparency file primarily covers Inpatient codes (100% of 837 codes). Procedures in other categories may not be reflected.

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
Inpatient	0.85x	837	8%

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 LOWELL GENERAL - SAINTS CAMPUS.