Kaleida Health
445 TREMONT ST · NORTH TONAWANDA, NY · 14120
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 17 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 17 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 794 codes) puts the score at 1.00x.
Kaleida Health bills below peers — about 0.18x the regional median. 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?
Too few procedures to assessHow 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inpatient | 0.95x | 773 | 28% |
| Other | 1.01x | 122 | 57% |
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 17 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 Kaleida Health.