ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER
825 CHALKSTONE AVE · PROVIDENCE, RI · 02908
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 18,026 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 16,142 codes) puts the score at 1.20x.
ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER prices near the regional median (0.90x overall). Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy is the most expensive department (1.19x); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.51x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 2.2x) with some outliers (5% above 3x)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 | 0.51x | 6,038 | 2% |
| Other | 1.00x | 5,752 | 40% |
| Inpatient | 1.03x | 2,044 | 68% |
| Lab | 1.00x | 1,661 | 46% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.19x | 1,389 | 53% |
| Imaging | 0.98x | 665 | 43% |
| Cardiac | 0.73x | 202 | 8% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.82x | 199 | 21% |
| Therapy | 0.94x | 76 | 37% |
Hospital info
- Beds: 148
- Annual discharges: 6,260
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 ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER.