INSPIRA MEDICAL CENTER VINELAND
1505 WEST SHERMAN AVENUE · VINELAND, NJ · 08360 · 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 42 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 42 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 10,303 codes) puts the score at 1.75x.
INSPIRA MEDICAL CENTER VINELAND bills well above peers — about 2.45x the regional median overall. Within departments, Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.62x). 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.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.7x) with 16% 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 | 0.90x | 5,948 | 19% |
| Other | 0.98x | 4,209 | 35% |
| Inpatient | 1.14x | 1,999 | 89% |
| Lab | 0.82x | 1,680 | 6% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.91x | 1,553 | 13% |
| Imaging | 0.92x | 673 | 14% |
| Cardiac | 0.82x | 204 | 20% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.80x | 199 | 12% |
| Therapy | 0.62x | 77 | 10% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 280
- Annual discharges: 14,534
- 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 42 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 INSPIRA MEDICAL CENTER VINELAND.