CAPE COD HOSPITAL
27 PARK STREET · HYANNIS, MA · 02601 · 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 6,894 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 5,723 codes) puts the score at 1.38x.
CAPE COD HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (1.06x overall). Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (2.58x, 2,170 codes). 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?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.5x) with 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 2.58x | 2,170 | 76% |
| Surgery | 1.04x | 1,564 | 61% |
| Inpatient | 1.05x | 1,353 | 70% |
| Lab | 1.00x | 792 | 47% |
| Imaging | 1.08x | 423 | 62% |
| Other | 1.09x | 423 | 65% |
| Cardiac | 0.96x | 91 | 42% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.19x | 40 | 68% |
| Therapy | 0.65x | 38 | 16% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 239
- Annual discharges: 16,608
- 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: 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 CAPE COD HOSPITAL.