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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 5,244 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 5,166 codes) puts the score at 1.92x.
WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER bills well above peers — about 2.05x the regional median overall. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (9.63x, 274 codes). 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 2.4x) with 34% 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 | 2.02x | 2,030 | 97% |
| Lab | 5.25x | 1,025 | 92% |
| Inpatient | 1.29x | 702 | 93% |
| Other | 1.96x | 582 | 74% |
| Imaging | 1.87x | 446 | 93% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 9.63x | 274 | 76% |
| Cardiac | 4.01x | 93 | 96% |
| Therapy | 2.92x | 53 | 98% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.80x | 39 | 85% |
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.