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Peconic Bay Medical Center

1 HEROES WAY · RIVERHEAD, NY · 11901 · Acute Care Hospitals

2.17x Far above peers

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 45 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 45 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 2,102 codes) puts the score at 2.20x.

Peconic Bay Medical Center bills well above peers — about 2.17x the regional median overall. Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (1.78x, 51 codes); Inpatient is comparatively affordable (0.83x). 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.

48% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 3.4x) with 10% 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
Inpatient 0.83x 1,850 40%
Surgery 1.00x 710 47%
Lab 1.04x 231 59%
Imaging 1.28x 164 74%
Other 1.19x 149 73%
Emergency/Eval 1.78x 51 86%
Cardiac 1.17x 34 74%
Therapy 1.37x 21 81%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Other
  • Beds: 130
  • Annual discharges: 10,459
  • 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: 10% trimmed mean across 45 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 Peconic Bay Medical Center.