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MARGARETVILLE HOSPITAL

42084 STATE HIGHWAY 28 · MARGARETVILLE, NY · 12455 · Critical Access Hospitals

2.25x Far above 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 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.

86% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 1.9x) with 19% 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
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.