SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER
830 WASHINGTON ST · WATERTOWN, NY · 13601 · 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 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, 12,488 codes) puts the score at 1.05x.
SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER bills well above peers — about 1.83x the regional median overall. Within departments, Cardiac is comparatively affordable (0.54x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.8x) with some outliers (6% above 3x)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.
| Department | Ratio | Codes | % above median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 0.97x | 5,951 | 46% |
| Other | 1.02x | 4,689 | 57% |
| Inpatient | 0.65x | 2,052 | 38% |
| Lab | 0.83x | 1,647 | 17% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.97x | 1,131 | 31% |
| Imaging | 0.68x | 670 | 28% |
| Cardiac | 0.54x | 203 | 13% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.79x | 187 | 13% |
| Therapy | 0.56x | 76 | 16% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 165
- Annual discharges: 7,597
- 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 SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER.