BRISTOL HOSPITAL
41 BREWSTER RD · BRISTOL, CT · 06010 · Acute Care Hospitals
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 43 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 43 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 12,916 codes) puts the score at 1.58x.
BRISTOL HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 2.03x the regional median overall. Within departments, Cardiac is comparatively affordable (0.79x). 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.
A nearby hospital 7.76 mi away is ~80% cheaper overall.
THE HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT has an overall price level of 0.40x vs. this hospital's 2.03x, with 960 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.9x) with 24% of codes above 3x the regional medianHow 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 | 1.01x | 6,282 | 53% |
| Other | 0.98x | 3,995 | 32% |
| Lab | 1.01x | 1,790 | 58% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.14x | 1,432 | 71% |
| Imaging | 0.88x | 796 | 22% |
| Inpatient | 0.81x | 776 | 8% |
| Cardiac | 0.79x | 201 | 19% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.85x | 120 | 12% |
| Therapy | 0.91x | 84 | 31% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 123
- Annual discharges: 4,478
- CMS overall quality star rating: 2/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 43 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 BRISTOL HOSPITAL.