Saint Vincent Hospital
123 SUMMER STREET · WORCESTER, MA · 01608
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 14,016 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 11,229 codes) puts the score at 1.55x.
Saint Vincent Hospital bills above peers — about 1.20x the regional median. Within departments, Therapy prices are notably high (1.65x, 53 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 12.4 mi away is ~27% cheaper overall.
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH ALLIANCE - CLINTON HOSPITAL has an overall price level of 0.87x vs. this hospital's 1.20x, with 307 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 3.1x) with 24% 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 | 1.64x | 5,874 | 87% |
| Other | 0.99x | 3,620 | 47% |
| Lab | 1.09x | 1,643 | 76% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.88x | 1,119 | 19% |
| Inpatient | 1.30x | 782 | 68% |
| Imaging | 1.19x | 653 | 68% |
| Cardiac | 1.49x | 182 | 90% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.12x | 90 | 54% |
| Therapy | 1.65x | 53 | 79% |
Hospital info
- Beds: 244
- Annual discharges: 13,139
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 Saint Vincent Hospital.