St. Charles Hospital
200 BELLE TERRE RD · PORT JEFFERSON, NY · 11777 · 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 51 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 51 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 17,969 codes) puts the score at 1.00x.
St. Charles Hospital bills well above peers — about 1.63x the regional median overall. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy is the most expensive department (1.46x); Lab is comparatively affordable (0.84x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.6x) with some outliers (9% 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 | 1.00x | 7,004 | 31% |
| Surgery | 0.97x | 5,893 | 33% |
| Inpatient | 0.90x | 1,983 | 1% |
| Lab | 0.84x | 1,662 | 10% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.46x | 1,452 | 75% |
| Imaging | 0.92x | 663 | 18% |
| Cardiac | 0.87x | 202 | 25% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.00x | 193 | 49% |
| Therapy | 1.30x | 77 | 69% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Church
- Beds: 167
- Annual discharges: 7,809
- CMS overall quality star rating: 4/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 51 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 St. Charles Hospital.