Saint Clares Dover Hospital
400 WEST BLACKWELL STREET · DOVER, NJ · 07801
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 54 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 54 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 3,232 codes) puts the score at 1.13x.
Saint Clares Dover Hospital bills above peers — about 1.39x the regional median. Within departments, Imaging is the most expensive department (1.16x); Lab is comparatively affordable (0.78x).
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 | 1.03x | 1,355 | 66% |
| Lab | 0.78x | 883 | 6% |
| Imaging | 1.16x | 406 | 75% |
| Other | 1.00x | 391 | 37% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.95x | 293 | 35% |
| Cardiac | 1.03x | 86 | 63% |
| Therapy | 0.68x | 42 | 19% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.85x | 28 | 86% |
Hospital info
- Beds: 242
- Annual discharges: 9,844
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 54 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 Clares Dover Hospital.