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CARTHAGE AREA HOSPITAL

1001 WEST ST · CARTHAGE, NY · 13619 · Critical Access Hospitals

1.79x 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 44 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 44 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 3,410 codes) puts the score at 2.76x.

CARTHAGE AREA HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 1.79x the regional median overall. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (2.49x, 240 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.33x). 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.

36% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 5.1x) with 47% 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
Surgery 0.33x 1,319 6%
Lab 2.03x 819 74%
Other 0.55x 418 26%
Imaging 1.47x 303 71%
Drugs/Pharmacy 2.49x 240 77%
Emergency/Eval 0.72x 145 23%
Cardiac 0.49x 61 13%
Therapy 0.44x 56 2%
Inpatient 0.01x 49 0%

Hospital info

  • Type: Critical Access Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
  • Beds: 25
  • Annual discharges: 870
Methodology & sources

Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 44 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 CARTHAGE AREA HOSPITAL.