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WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL CENTER
41 EAST POST ROAD · WHITE PLAINS, NY · 10601 · 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 26 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 26 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 12,834 codes) puts the score at 2.72x.
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL CENTER bills well above peers — about 2.39x the regional median overall. Within departments, Surgery prices are notably high (3.59x, 6,027 codes); Inpatient is comparatively affordable (0.64x). 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 6.89 mi away is ~55% cheaper overall.
GREENWICH HOSPITAL has an overall price level of 1.08x vs. this hospital's 2.39x, with 3,707 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 3.4x) with 44% 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 | 3.59x | 6,027 | 99% |
| Other | 1.08x | 2,208 | 60% |
| Inpatient | 0.64x | 1,912 | 34% |
| Lab | 2.20x | 1,623 | 64% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.20x | 837 | 72% |
| Imaging | 1.04x | 686 | 62% |
| Cardiac | 1.02x | 203 | 54% |
| Therapy | 1.25x | 76 | 71% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.40x | 67 | 81% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 292
- Annual discharges: 21,959
- CMS overall quality star rating: 5/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 26 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 WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL CENTER.