MetroWest Medical Center - Framingham
115 LINCOLN STREET · FRAMINGHAM, MA · 01702
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 13,140 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 10,317 codes) puts the score at 1.67x.
MetroWest Medical Center - Framingham bills above peers — about 1.22x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery prices are notably high (1.66x, 5,780 codes). The wide price spread (C grade) means individual bills are hard to predict — a procedure priced near the median in one department may be 5x in another.
A nearby hospital 9.45 mi away is ~31% cheaper overall.
NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL has an overall price level of 0.84x vs. this hospital's 1.22x, with 413 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 3.3x) with 27% of codes above 3x the regional medianHow 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 | 1.66x | 5,780 | 82% |
| Other | 1.00x | 3,034 | 48% |
| Lab | 1.16x | 1,631 | 69% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.88x | 960 | 18% |
| Inpatient | 0.92x | 782 | 43% |
| Imaging | 1.16x | 651 | 61% |
| Cardiac | 1.59x | 168 | 81% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.98x | 78 | 46% |
| Therapy | 1.48x | 56 | 73% |
Hospital info
- Beds: 134
- Annual discharges: 6,200
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 MetroWest Medical Center - Framingham.