SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY HOSPITAL
1140 STATE ROUTE 72 WEST · MANAHAWKIN, NJ · 08050 · 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 10 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 10 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 4,812 codes) puts the score at 1.56x.
SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (1.09x overall). Within departments, Other is the most expensive department (1.20x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.6x) with few outliers (5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 1.20x | 7,822 | 76% |
| Surgery | 0.92x | 1,657 | 24% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 1,406 | 37% |
| Inpatient | 0.85x | 880 | 12% |
| Lab | 0.98x | 537 | 37% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.90x | 144 | 34% |
| Imaging | 0.95x | 112 | 29% |
| Cardiac | 0.91x | 41 | 15% |
| Therapy | 0.88x | 13 | 31% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 156
- Annual discharges: 8,777
- 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 10 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 SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY HOSPITAL.