Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington
41 MALL ROAD · BURLINGTON, MA · 01805
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 19,101 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 14,796 codes) puts the score at 1.31x.
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington bills above peers — about 1.31x the regional median. Within departments, Imaging prices are notably high (1.75x, 696 codes). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
A nearby hospital 7.49 mi away is ~37% cheaper overall.
LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF MEDFORD has an overall price level of 0.82x vs. this hospital's 1.31x, with 753 procedures in common.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.5x) with few outliers (1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.93x | 5,365 | 24% |
| Surgery | 1.43x | 4,926 | 88% |
| Other | 1.37x | 3,859 | 86% |
| Inpatient | 1.57x | 2,172 | 76% |
| Lab | 1.58x | 1,686 | 97% |
| Imaging | 1.75x | 696 | 96% |
| Cardiac | 1.54x | 192 | 93% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.30x | 126 | 59% |
| Therapy | 1.29x | 79 | 85% |
Hospital info
- Beds: 344
- Annual discharges: 21,618
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 Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington.