MetroWest Medical Center
115 LINCOLN STREET · FRAMINGHAM, MA · 01702 · 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 13,351 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 13,158 codes) puts the score at 1.31x.
MetroWest Medical Center bills below peers — about 0.78x the regional median. Within departments, Inpatient prices are notably high (3.13x, 777 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.31x). 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 3.7x) with 37% 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 | 0.31x | 5,933 | 16% |
| Other | 1.00x | 3,196 | 49% |
| Lab | 0.97x | 1,665 | 23% |
| Inpatient | 3.13x | 777 | 82% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.94x | 747 | 12% |
| Imaging | 0.52x | 669 | 24% |
| Cardiac | 0.99x | 184 | 46% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.72x | 111 | 3% |
| Therapy | 1.01x | 69 | 55% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 134
- Annual discharges: 6,200
- CMS overall quality star rating: 1/5
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 MetroWest Medical Center.