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SHORE MEDICAL CENTER

100 MEDICAL CENTER WAY · SOMERS POINT, NJ · 08244 · Acute Care Hospitals

0.89x Near peers

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

How is this computed?All-codes score: median of price ratios across every available billing code. Based on 13,615 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 8,651 codes) puts the score at 1.39x.

SHORE MEDICAL CENTER prices near the regional median (0.89x overall). Within departments, Other is comparatively affordable (0.76x). 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.

22% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 4.0x) with 22% 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
Other 0.76x 7,300 14%
Inpatient 0.94x 2,196 38%
Surgery 0.91x 1,741 10%
Drugs/Pharmacy 1.00x 1,075 49%
Lab 0.92x 790 17%
Imaging 1.09x 387 66%
Cardiac 0.91x 96 24%
Emergency/Eval 0.88x 19 5%
Therapy 0.88x 11 0%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
  • Beds: 199
  • Annual discharges: 7,632
  • 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: median of price ratios across every available billing code. 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 SHORE MEDICAL CENTER.