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INSPIRA MEDICAL CENTER ELMER

501 WEST FRONT STREET · ELMER, NJ · 08318 · Acute Care Hospitals

2.51x Far above peers

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 43 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 43 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 ELMER bills well above peers — about 2.51x the regional median overall. Within departments, Therapy is the most expensive department (1.44x); Emergency/Eval is comparatively affordable (0.49x). 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.

26% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.5x) with 15% 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
Surgery 0.92x 5,735 20%
Other 0.98x 4,832 23%
Inpatient 1.05x 1,994 60%
Lab 0.82x 1,671 5%
Drugs/Pharmacy 0.97x 1,438 36%
Imaging 0.93x 666 20%
Cardiac 0.95x 194 39%
Emergency/Eval 0.49x 129 10%
Therapy 1.44x 74 58%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
  • Beds: 286
  • Annual discharges: 14,423
  • CMS overall quality star rating: 3/5
Methodology & sources

Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 43 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 ELMER.