VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER
45 READE PL · POUGHKEEPSIE, NY · 12601 · Acute Care Hospitals
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 18,680 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 12,824 codes) puts the score at 1.14x.
VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER prices near the regional median (1.10x overall). Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (4.18x, 114 codes); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.62x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 2.0x) with some outliers (15% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 2.06x | 6,513 | 96% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 4,943 | 12% |
| Other | 1.05x | 2,505 | 66% |
| Inpatient | 2.60x | 2,044 | 98% |
| Lab | 0.85x | 1,616 | 22% |
| Imaging | 0.95x | 668 | 42% |
| Cardiac | 1.15x | 215 | 71% |
| Emergency/Eval | 4.18x | 114 | 96% |
| Therapy | 0.62x | 62 | 19% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 345
- Annual discharges: 18,696
- 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: 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 VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER.