COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

150 BROAD ST · HAMILTON, NY · 13346 · Critical Access Hospitals

6.55x Far above peers

vs. the regional median (the other ~300 NY/NJ/CT hospitals publishing the same code).

How is this computed?

All-codes score: median of price ratios across every available billing code. Based on 16 billing codes published by this hospital.

COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 6.55x the regional median overall. 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.

88% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)

why?

Wide price spread (IQR ratio 15.5x) with 56% 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.

Limited coverage: This hospital's published transparency file primarily covers Lab codes (100% of 7 codes). Procedures in other categories may not be reflected.

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	10.00x	7	100%

Hospital info

Type: Critical Access Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Beds: 25
Annual discharges: 765
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: median of price ratios across every available billing code. 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 COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.