DEBORAH HEART AND LUNG CENTER
200 TRENTON ROAD · BROWNS MILLS, NJ · 08015 · 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 36 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 36 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 2,960 codes) puts the score at 2.03x.
DEBORAH HEART AND LUNG CENTER bills well above peers — about 2.34x the regional median overall. Within departments, Other is the most expensive department (1.16x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
A nearby hospital 0 mi away is ~60% cheaper overall.
CAPITAL HEALTH AT DEBORAH - EMERGENCY SERVICES has an overall price level of 0.94x vs. this hospital's 2.34x, with 2,178 procedures in common.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.7x) with some outliers (6% 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 | 0.93x | 771 | 12% |
| Surgery | 1.00x | 682 | 50% |
| Lab | 0.87x | 627 | 19% |
| Imaging | 0.97x | 346 | 41% |
| Other | 1.16x | 280 | 72% |
| Cardiac | 1.05x | 142 | 62% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.09x | 53 | 76% |
| Therapy | 1.05x | 42 | 60% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.83x | 17 | 35% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 84
- Annual discharges: 3,412
- CMS overall quality star rating: 4/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 36 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 DEBORAH HEART AND LUNG CENTER.