WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER
100 WOODS RD · VALHALLA, NY · 10595 · Acute Care Hospitals
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 4,853 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 4,800 codes) puts the score at 1.44x.
WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER prices near the regional median (1.03x overall). Within departments, Inpatient prices are notably high (1.51x, 675 codes); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.79x). 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 8.53 mi away is ~13% cheaper overall.
ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL WESTCHESTER has an overall price level of 0.90x vs. this hospital's 1.03x, with 892 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.6x) with 27% 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 | 1.06x | 1,809 | 70% |
| Lab | 0.98x | 935 | 35% |
| Inpatient | 1.51x | 675 | 97% |
| Other | 1.00x | 553 | 48% |
| Imaging | 1.04x | 443 | 70% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.92x | 253 | 4% |
| Cardiac | 1.05x | 93 | 56% |
| Therapy | 0.79x | 53 | 11% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.66x | 39 | 69% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Other
- Beds: 696
- Annual discharges: 27,936
- CMS overall quality star rating: 1/5
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 WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER.