ST. MARY'S HEALTHCARE
427 GUY PARK AVE · AMSTERDAM, NY · 12010 · 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 49 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 49 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 3,058 codes) puts the score at 0.97x.
ST. MARY'S HEALTHCARE bills above peers — about 1.17x the regional median. Within departments, Inpatient is comparatively affordable (0.76x). 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.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 4.1x) with 29% of codes above 3x the regional medianHow 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 | 0.97x | 918 | 36% |
| Lab | 0.82x | 771 | 16% |
| Inpatient | 0.76x | 585 | 41% |
| Imaging | 0.95x | 338 | 27% |
| Other | 0.92x | 244 | 26% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.97x | 217 | 31% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.89x | 56 | 25% |
| Therapy | 0.51x | 43 | 2% |
| Cardiac | 0.75x | 31 | 13% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 100
- Annual discharges: 3,177
- CMS overall quality star rating: 2/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 49 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. MARY'S HEALTHCARE.