GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL
255 LAFAYETTE AVE · SUFFERN, NY · 10901 · 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 38 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 38 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 1,979 codes) puts the score at 2.23x.
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 2.37x the regional median overall. Within departments, Inpatient is the most expensive department (1.29x); Lab is comparatively affordable (0.81x). 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.
A nearby hospital 10.38 mi away is ~59% cheaper overall.
HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL has an overall price level of 0.98x vs. this hospital's 2.37x, with 297 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.0x) with 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inpatient | 1.29x | 538 | 96% |
| Lab | 0.81x | 498 | 8% |
| Surgery | 1.14x | 460 | 77% |
| Imaging | 1.02x | 254 | 57% |
| Other | 1.03x | 103 | 56% |
| Cardiac | 1.08x | 77 | 66% |
| Therapy | 0.68x | 31 | 13% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.51x | 28 | 68% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 286
- Annual discharges: 13,985
- 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 38 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 GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL.