GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL

100 PARK ST · GLENS FALLS, NY · 12801 · Acute Care Hospitals

1.00x Near 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 16,540 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 8,844 codes) puts the score at 1.84x.

GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (1.00x overall). Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (2.15x, 141 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.77x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.

52% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability B (Moderate)

why?

Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 2.5x) with some outliers (5% 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
Other	1.02x	7,305	59%
Surgery	0.77x	4,957	29%
Inpatient	1.36x	2,131	57%
Drugs/Pharmacy	1.58x	1,066	91%
Lab	1.04x	492	62%
Imaging	1.00x	280	50%
Emergency/Eval	2.15x	141	96%
Cardiac	1.07x	102	58%
Therapy	1.23x	66	77%

Hospital info

Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Beds: 391
Annual discharges: 10,963
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: 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 GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL.