Mount Auburn Hospital
330 MOUNT AUBURN STREET · CAMBRIDGE, MA · 02138 · Acute Care Hospitals
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 16,152 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 14,050 codes) puts the score at 1.25x.
Mount Auburn Hospital bills above peers — about 1.25x the regional median. Within departments, Lab prices are notably high (1.77x, 1,665 codes); Drugs/Pharmacy is comparatively affordable (0.72x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
A nearby hospital 3.13 mi away is ~31% cheaper overall.
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL has an overall price level of 0.87x vs. this hospital's 1.25x, with 670 procedures in common.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.5x) with few outliers (1% 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 | 1.29x | 4,830 | 85% |
| Other | 1.29x | 3,283 | 77% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.72x | 3,109 | 15% |
| Inpatient | 1.21x | 2,174 | 63% |
| Lab | 1.77x | 1,665 | 95% |
| Imaging | 1.43x | 695 | 89% |
| Cardiac | 1.25x | 192 | 81% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.17x | 126 | 72% |
| Therapy | 1.29x | 78 | 81% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 189
- Annual discharges: 11,866
- CMS overall quality star rating: 4/5
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 Mount Auburn Hospital.