RIVER HOSPITAL

4 FULLER ST · ALEXANDRIA BAY, NY · 13607 · Critical Access Hospitals

0.78x 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 54 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 54 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 15,580 codes) puts the score at 0.67x.

RIVER HOSPITAL bills below peers — about 0.78x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.19x). 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.

6% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)

why?

Wide price spread (IQR ratio 3.2x) with 2% 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.

Department	Ratio	Codes	% above median
Surgery	0.19x	5,886	0%
Other	0.85x	5,640	14%
Lab	0.76x	1,643	1%
Drugs/Pharmacy	0.90x	1,300	9%
Imaging	0.34x	662	1%
Cardiac	0.28x	202	2%
Emergency/Eval	0.63x	195	7%
Therapy	0.45x	76	1%

Hospital info

Type: Critical Access Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Beds: 25
Annual discharges: 117

Methodology & sources

Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 54 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 RIVER HOSPITAL.