VIRTUA OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOSPITAL
1600 HADDON AVENUE · CAMDEN, NJ · 08103 · Acute Care Hospitals
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 33 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 33 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 5,301 codes) puts the score at 0.96x.
VIRTUA OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 1.87x the regional median overall. Within departments, Surgery is the most expensive department (1.22x); Lab is comparatively affordable (0.80x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 2.2x) with some outliers (10% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inpatient | 0.86x | 2,031 | 11% |
| Other | 1.03x | 935 | 56% |
| Surgery | 1.22x | 712 | 64% |
| Lab | 0.80x | 706 | 10% |
| Imaging | 0.94x | 508 | 26% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.02x | 267 | 51% |
| Cardiac | 0.94x | 108 | 31% |
| Therapy | 1.14x | 46 | 65% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.53x | 21 | 62% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Government - State
- Beds: 279
- Annual discharges: 11,793
- 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 33 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 VIRTUA OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOSPITAL.