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BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

75 FRANCIS STREET · BOSTON, MA · 02115

0.93x Near 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 767 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 620 codes) puts the score at 0.94x.

BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (0.93x overall). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.

43% 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 767 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.

DepartmentRatioCodes% above median
Inpatient 0.93x 767 43%

Hospital info

  • Beds: 826
  • Annual discharges: 40,333
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 BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL.