ST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER
127 SOUTH BROADWAY · YONKERS, NY · 10701 · 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 33 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 33 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 1,031 codes) puts the score at 0.81x.
ST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER prices near the regional median (1.00x overall). Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (1.90x, 91 codes); Lab is comparatively affordable (0.78x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.3x) with few outliers (4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lab | 0.78x | 318 | 3% |
| Surgery | 0.93x | 252 | 29% |
| Imaging | 1.00x | 178 | 47% |
| Other | 0.93x | 124 | 35% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.90x | 91 | 66% |
| Inpatient | 1.16x | 52 | 85% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.87x | 42 | 33% |
| Therapy | 0.75x | 21 | 14% |
| Cardiac | 0.80x | 19 | 0% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 122
- Annual discharges: 2,901
- CMS overall quality star rating: 1/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 33 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 ST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER.