NEW MILFORD HOSPITAL
21 ELM ST · NEW MILFORD, CT · 06776
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 20,972 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 14,396 codes) puts the score at 1.09x.
NEW MILFORD HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (1.06x overall). Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (2.34x, 209 codes). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.9x) with some outliers (8% 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 | 0.85x | 6,039 | 39% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 5,714 | 38% |
| Other | 1.40x | 5,342 | 73% |
| Lab | 1.15x | 1,762 | 86% |
| Inpatient | 1.64x | 816 | 95% |
| Imaging | 1.06x | 797 | 61% |
| Cardiac | 0.97x | 211 | 45% |
| Emergency/Eval | 2.34x | 209 | 94% |
| Therapy | 1.55x | 82 | 88% |
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 NEW MILFORD HOSPITAL.