FALMOUTH HOSPITAL
100 TER HEUN DRIVE · FALMOUTH, MA · 02540 · 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 6,128 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 5,033 codes) puts the score at 1.28x.
FALMOUTH HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (1.01x overall). Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (3.49x, 2,017 codes); Inpatient is comparatively affordable (0.82x). 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 14.08 mi away is ~19% cheaper overall.
TOBEY HOSPITAL has an overall price level of 0.82x vs. this hospital's 1.01x, with 339 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 3.8x) with 17% 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 | 3.49x | 2,017 | 72% |
| Surgery | 1.03x | 1,273 | 57% |
| Inpatient | 0.82x | 1,054 | 3% |
| Lab | 1.00x | 792 | 46% |
| Imaging | 1.06x | 422 | 63% |
| Other | 1.11x | 401 | 68% |
| Cardiac | 0.96x | 91 | 39% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.04x | 40 | 60% |
| Therapy | 0.64x | 38 | 16% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 81
- Annual discharges: 4,902
- 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 FALMOUTH HOSPITAL.