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THE COOPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

1 COOPER PLAZA · CAMDEN, NJ · 08103 · Acute Care Hospitals

1.82x Far above peers

vs. the regional median (the other ~300 NY/NJ/CT hospitals publishing the same code).

How is this computed?High-confidence score: 10% trimmed mean across 51 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 51 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 7,497 codes) puts the score at 0.96x.

THE COOPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 1.82x the regional median overall. Within departments, Lab is comparatively affordable (0.83x). 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.

38% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 4.5x) with 41% of codes above 3x the regional median

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.

DepartmentRatioCodes% above median
Drugs/Pharmacy 1.00x 2,375 47%
Surgery 0.92x 2,244 17%
Inpatient 1.04x 2,038 68%
Lab 0.83x 978 13%
Other 0.92x 661 26%
Imaging 0.94x 462 24%
Cardiac 0.98x 109 48%
Emergency/Eval 0.80x 41 27%
Therapy 0.87x 41 29%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
  • Beds: 578
  • Annual discharges: 31,354
  • CMS overall quality star rating: 2/5
Methodology & sources

Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 51 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. 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 THE COOPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.