Upper Allegheny Health System

515 MAIN ST · OLEAN, NY · 14760 · Acute Care Hospitals

0.69x Below 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 371 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 301 codes) puts the score at 0.71x.

Upper Allegheny Health System bills below peers — about 0.69x the regional median. 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.

8% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)

why?

Too few procedures to assess

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.

Limited coverage: This hospital's published transparency file primarily covers Inpatient codes (100% of 371 codes). Procedures in other categories may not be reflected.

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
Inpatient	0.69x	371	8%

Hospital info

Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Proprietary
Beds: 202
Annual discharges: 5,297
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: 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 Upper Allegheny Health System.