Phelps Hospital
701 NORTH BROADWAY · SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY · 10591 · 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 47 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 47 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 2,102 codes) puts the score at 2.50x.
Phelps Hospital bills well above peers — about 2.46x the regional median overall. Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (1.81x, 51 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.
A nearby hospital 6.16 mi away is ~59% cheaper overall.
ST. JOHN'S RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL - DOBBS FERRY has an overall price level of 1.00x vs. this hospital's 2.46x, with 1,303 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 3.3x) with 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inpatient | 0.88x | 1,850 | 41% |
| Surgery | 1.04x | 710 | 80% |
| Lab | 1.53x | 231 | 89% |
| Imaging | 1.35x | 164 | 90% |
| Other | 1.25x | 147 | 86% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.81x | 51 | 88% |
| Cardiac | 1.19x | 34 | 85% |
| Therapy | 1.48x | 21 | 81% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 111
- Annual discharges: 6,608
- CMS overall quality star rating: 3/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 47 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 Phelps Hospital .