BASSETT MEDICAL CENTER
ONE ATWELL ROAD · COOPERSTOWN, NY · 13326 · 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 42 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 42 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 3,182 codes) puts the score at 0.32x.
BASSETT MEDICAL CENTER bills below peers — about 0.31x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.16x). 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 4.5x) with 0% 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 | 0.16x | 1,950 | 0% |
| Inpatient | 0.76x | 616 | 0% |
| Imaging | 0.18x | 333 | 0% |
| Other | 0.38x | 133 | 13% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.80x | 104 | 12% |
| Lab | 0.67x | 34 | 9% |
| Therapy | 0.55x | 10 | 0% |
| Cardiac | 0.43x | 3 | 0% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 160
- Annual discharges: 7,733
- 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 42 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 BASSETT MEDICAL CENTER.