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NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITAL

6511 SPRINGBROOK AVENUE · RHINEBECK, NY · 12572 · Acute Care Hospitals

1.12x Near peers

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 19,656 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 13,798 codes) puts the score at 1.21x.

NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (1.12x overall). Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (4.18x, 114 codes); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.60x). 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.

67% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.1x) 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 2.35x 6,505 97%
Drugs/Pharmacy 1.00x 4,971 13%
Other 1.05x 3,453 72%
Inpatient 1.75x 2,058 89%
Lab 1.10x 1,615 81%
Imaging 0.95x 666 42%
Cardiac 1.47x 216 76%
Emergency/Eval 4.18x 114 96%
Therapy 0.60x 58 16%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
  • Beds: 79
  • Annual discharges: 4,738
  • 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: 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 NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITAL.