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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PHYSICIANS HOSPITAL

75 BEEKMAN ST · PLATTSBURGH, NY · 12901 · Acute Care Hospitals

0.27x Below peers

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 44 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 44 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 4,210 codes) puts the score at 0.28x.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PHYSICIANS HOSPITAL bills below peers — about 0.27x the regional median. Within departments, Imaging is comparatively affordable (0.14x). 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.

25% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 7.0x) with 0% of codes above 3x the regional median

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.

DepartmentRatioCodes% above median
Surgery 0.15x 2,199 0%
Inpatient 1.04x 2,042 64%
Imaging 0.14x 595 0%
Other 0.60x 328 12%
Emergency/Eval 0.69x 113 6%
Cardiac 0.30x 110 8%
Lab 0.77x 64 13%
Drugs/Pharmacy 1.00x 29 0%
Therapy 0.24x 13 0%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
  • Beds: 286
  • Annual discharges: 7,602
  • 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 44 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 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PHYSICIANS HOSPITAL.