MARGARETVILLE HOSPITAL
42084 STATE HIGHWAY 28 · MARGARETVILLE, NY · 12455 · Critical Access 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 38 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 38 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 2,606 codes) puts the score at 2.01x.
MARGARETVILLE HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 2.25x the regional median overall. Within departments, Surgery prices are notably high (2.67x, 706 codes); Inpatient is comparatively affordable (0.57x). 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 1.9x) with 19% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lab | 2.10x | 1,019 | 92% |
| Surgery | 2.67x | 706 | 90% |
| Imaging | 1.33x | 388 | 84% |
| Other | 1.90x | 363 | 72% |
| Cardiac | 2.46x | 80 | 93% |
| Inpatient | 0.57x | 53 | 2% |
| Therapy | 2.36x | 43 | 86% |
| Emergency/Eval | 2.31x | 30 | 80% |
Hospital info
- Type: Critical Access Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 15
- Annual discharges: 93
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 38 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 MARGARETVILLE HOSPITAL.