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SAINT JOSEPHS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

703 MAIN STREET · PATERSON, NJ · 07503 · Acute Care Hospitals

1.19x 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, 16,857 codes) puts the score at 0.74x.

SAINT JOSEPHS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER bills above peers — about 1.19x the regional median. Within departments, Lab prices are notably high (1.50x, 1,793 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.32x). 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 4.71 mi away is ~91% cheaper overall.

SELECT SPECIALTY HOSPITAL - NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY has an overall price level of 0.10x vs. this hospital's 1.19x, with 703 procedures in common.

33% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 3.4x) with 6% 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
Surgery 0.32x 6,398 8%
Other 0.97x 5,638 33%
Inpatient 1.06x 2,066 58%
Lab 1.50x 1,793 61%
Drugs/Pharmacy 1.22x 1,307 70%
Imaging 0.93x 887 35%
Emergency/Eval 1.23x 270 66%
Cardiac 0.61x 259 24%
Therapy 0.88x 83 39%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Church
  • Beds: 681
  • Annual discharges: 25,095
  • CMS overall quality star rating: 3/5
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 SAINT JOSEPHS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER.